Santa Maria delle Grazie Maggiore a Caponapoli
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Santa Maria delle Grazie Maggiore a CaponapoliorSanta Maria delle Grazie Maggioreis a church located in the historic center ofNaples,Italy.
History[edit]
Work on the church and adjacent monastery began in 1447, inspired by the beatifiedPietro da Pisa.The church was completed in 1473, but from 1516 to 1535 it underwent reconstruction, including the portal byGiovanni Francesco di Palma.Further reconstruction occurred in the 18th century. During the second half of the 18th century, it was a secret meeting place for members ofFree Masonry,supposedly sponsored by the monk Serafino Pinzone (who was accused of revolutionaryJacobinleanings in 1794). In 1809, the church was suppressed, and in 1933 joined to the Hospital of Incurables (Ospedale degli Incurabili) under the original order of the monastery. But by the 1970s, the church was in poor state of conservation.
The interior is laid out as a Latin cross with chapels, and houses paintings byDomenico Antonio Vaccaro,Girolamo D'Auria,and aMadonnastatue and aDepositionbas-relief byGiovanni da Nola.Among the masterworks in the church is theRenaissanceburial monument of theGiovanniello de Cuntco and his wife, Lucrezia Filangieri di Candida(1517), sculpted byGiovanni Tommaso Malvito.Giovanello, secretary to the King of Aragon, reclines above in three dimensions, while his wife sleeps below in an elegant but simple bas-relief.
The presbytery and apse decorated with frescoes byGiovanni Battista BeinaschiandLorenzo Vaccaro.The right arm of the transept has aSant'Antonio di PadovabyAndrea da Salerno;in the 6th chapel on left, in relief theIncredulity of St ThomasbyGirolamo Santacroce,while the first chapel has both theDepositionbas-relief byGiovanni da Nolaand aBurial of Galeazzo Giustinianiby an unknown 16th-century artist.
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Bibliography[edit]
- Vincenzo Regina,Le chiese di Napoli. Viaggio indimenticabile attraverso la storia artistica, architettonica, letteraria, civile e spirituale della Napoli sacra,Newton e Compton editor, Naples 2004.
- Mario Buonoconto,Napoli esoterica: an itinerario nei misteri napoletani,Rome 1999.
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