Crocifisso Valente was born in Carovigno, but he resides and always operates in Ostuni. Painter and sculptor, was immortalized in magnificent paintings,The portals of the historic center of Ostuni. Him have said and written:

The "Cathedral" painted by Crocifisso Valente is certainly a masterpiece of 'contemporary figurative art, which illustrates the' objective value of the monument of Ostuni, its powerful architecture that enhances the Levantine stone. Ostuni is, therefore, naturalistic animism, walls of houses and neighborhoods perched stone, turf and camps, ancient trulli enchanted solitude that is renewed

Nino Masaracchio 

Man Valente has the soul of a poet who feels the lyrical sense of reality and that is moved by the beauty. He paints instinctively what he sees, and moves only in obedience to their impulses, their own convictions, following a road with an exceptional safety is hers alone, attentive only to their underlying reasons and pushed to say things and express ideas and feelings that are harbored in his soul as an artist.

Pietro Lucchese