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Sansevero
The Cappella Sansevero (also known as the Cappella Sansevero de' Sangri or Pietatella) is a chapel located on Via Francesco de Sanctis 19, just northwest of the church of San Domenico Maggiore, in the historic center of Naples, Italy. The chapel is more properly named the Chapel of ''Santa Maria della Pietà''. It contains works of Rococo art by some of the leading Italian artists of the 18th century. History Its origin dates to 1590 when John Francesco di Sangro, Duke of Torremaggiore, after recovering from a serious illness, had a private chapel built in what were then the gardens of the nearby Sansevero family residence, the Palazzo Sansevero. The building was converted into a family burial chapel by Alessandro di Sangro in 1613 (as inscribed on the marble plinth over the entrance to the chapel). Definitive form was given to the chapel by Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero, who also included Masonic symbols in its reconstruction. Until 1888 a passageway connected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cappella Sansevero (15041603867)
The Cappella Sansevero (also known as the Cappella Sansevero de' Sangri or Pietatella) is a chapel located on Via Francesco de Sanctis 19, just northwest of the church of San Domenico Maggiore, in the historic center of Naples, Italy. The chapel is more properly named the Chapel of ''Santa Maria della Pietà''. It contains works of Rococo art by some of the leading Italian artists of the 18th century. History Its origin dates to 1590 when John Francesco di Sangro, Duke of Torremaggiore, after recovering from a serious illness, had a private chapel built in what were then the gardens of the nearby Sansevero family residence, the Palazzo Sansevero. The building was converted into a family burial chapel by Alessandro di Sangro in 1613 (as inscribed on the marble plinth over the entrance to the chapel). Definitive form was given to the chapel by Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero, who also included Masonic symbols in its reconstruction. Until 1888 a passageway connected the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimondo Di Sangro
Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero (30 January 1710 – 22 March 1771) was an Italian nobleman, inventor, soldier, writer, scientist, alchemist and freemason best remembered for his reconstruction of the Cappella Sansevero, Sansevero Chapel in Naples. Early life The seventh Prince of San Severo was born in Torremaggiore into a noble family. His father was Antonio, Duke of Torremaggiore, and his mother was Cecilia Gaetani of Aragon. His mother died shortly after his birth. From the age of ten he was educated at the Jesuit College in Rome. Career In 1730, at the age of 20, he returned to Naples. He became a friend of Charles III of Spain, Charles Bourbon, who became king of Naples in 1734, for whom he invented a waterproof cape . In 1744 he distinguished himself at the head of a regiment during the Battle of Velletri (1744), Battle of Velletri, in the war between the Habsburgs and the House of Bourbon, Bourbons. While in command of the military he built a cannon out of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veiled Truth
''Modesty'' or ''Chastity'' ( it, La Pudicizia) or ''Veiled Truth'' by Antonio Corradini is a sculpture completed in 1752 during the Rococo period. Corradini was commissioned by Raimondo di Sangro to sculpt a memorial for his mother in the Cappella Sansevero in Naples, where the marble sculpture remains today. About the work Corradini worked mostly in Venice but also spent some time in Vienna and Naples before his death in 1752. ''Modesty'' was the last in Corradini's series of veiled female nudes, a subject he developed and refined throughout his career. His mastery of the medium of marble is seen in the increasingly skilled representation of seemingly weightless cloth over human flesh in his commissioned pieces. ''Modesty'' is positioned on a pedestal in the chapel and can sometimes be lost in the beauty of the space and its surrounding statues created by other various artists. Raimondo wanted this commemoration to depict his mother's untimely death when he was not even a ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veiled Christ
The ''Veiled Christ'' (Italian: ''Cristo velato'') is a 1753 marble sculpture by Giuseppe Sanmartino exhibited in the Cappella Sansevero, Naples, Italy. ''Veiled Christ'' is considered one of the world's most remarkable sculptures, and legendarily thought to have been created by alchemy. Sculptor Antonio Canova, who tried to acquire the work, declared that he would willingly give up ten years of his life to produce a similar masterpiece. History and description ''Veiled Christ''s production was originally assigned to the sculptor Antonio Corradini, who specialized in veiled statues. However, Corradini died a short time later, having produced only a terracotta bozzetto (today displayed at the Museo Nazionale di San Martino). The job thus passed to Giuseppe Sanmartino, who was charged with producing "a marble statue sculpted with the greatest realism, representing Our Lord Jesus Christ in death, covered by a transparent shroud carved from the same block of stone as the statue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Corradini
Antonio Corradini (19 October 1688 – 12 August 1752) was an Italian Rococo sculptor from Venice. He is best known for his illusory veiled depictions of human body, where the contours of the face and bodies beneath the veil are discernible. Born in Venice, Corradini spent most of his early career working in his hometown for various patrons in Veneto and Venetian Republic in general, as well as for Dresden and Saint Petersburg. Later, in 1730s, he spent a decade in Vienna where he was court sculptor for Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor. In 1740s he moved first to Rome and later to Naples, where he died. Biography Early life Corradini was the son of Gerolamo Corradini, a professional veler (packer of sails for ships), and his wife Barbara, and born in the parish of SS. Vito and Modesto in Venice. His family was modest. Corradini was apprenticed to the sculptor Antonio Tarsia (1663 - ca 1739), for whom he worked probably for four or five years starting at the age of fourteen or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Queirolo
Francesco Queirolo (1704–1762) was an Italian Genoese-born sculptor, active in Rome and Naples during the Rococo period. Biography He trained together with Giuseppe Rusconi in Rome. Here he executed the statues of St. Charles Borromeo and St. Bernard in the façade of Santa Maria Maggiore, a bust of Christine of Sweden Christina ( sv, Kristina, 18 December (New Style) 1626 – 19 April 1689), a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden in her own right from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. She succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus upon his death a ... (1740), the statue of ''Wealth'' in the Trevi Fountain (1735) and the sepulchre of Duchess Grillo in Sant'Andrea delle Fratte (1752). After 1752 he was active in the decoration of the famed Neapolitan Cappella Sansevero. ''Release from Deception'' (''Il Disinganno'') ''Release from Deception'' (''Il Disinganno''), produced in 1752–1759, shows a fisherman being released from a net by an angel. The masterp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Sanmartino
Giuseppe Sanmartino or Giuseppe Sammartino (1720 – 1793) was an Italian sculptor during the Rococo period. Sanmartino was born in Naples. His first dated (1753) work is ''Veiled Christ'' or ''Christ lying under the Shroud'', commissioned initially from the Venetian sculptor Antonio Corradini who did not live to complete the work. Sammartino interpreted his sketches freely to create a masterly sculpture which can be seen in Sansevero Chapel (also called ''Cappella Sansevero'' or ''Pietatella'') in Naples. Other contributors to this chapel were Francesco Celebrano and the Genoese sculptor Francesco Queirolo. The statue of ''Veiled Christ'' is elaborately artificial (art historian Wittkower labeled it as a ''hypertrophic'' effort) by reproducing in stone the effect of a thin veil. In the same chapel, Corradini's antecedent statue of ''Chastity'' (also called ''Modesty'') is present. Innocenzo Spinazzi, a contemporary Florentine sculptor, also completed statues with this effect. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Di Sangro
Palazzo di Sangro, also known as either Palazzo de Sangro di Sansevero or Palazzo Sansevero, is a late-Renaissance-style aristocratic palace facing the church of San Domenico Maggiore, separated by the via named after the church, in the city center of Naples, Italy. Part of the palace facade faces the piazza in front of the church, which is also bordered to the south by the Palazzo di Sangro di Casacalenda. History A palace at the site was begun by Paolo di Sangro, duke of Torremaggiore in the 16th century as his family residence. It was designed by the sculptor and architect Giovanni da Nola. Around that time it was also resident to the nobleman and composer Carlo Gesualdo - it was here that he murdered his wife. Giovan Francesco Paolo di Sangro, 1st Prince of San Severo, began building a family burial chapel in the palace grounds - it was completed in 1613 by his son Alessandro, patriarch of Alexandria and archbishop of Benevento. Paolo de Sangro, 2nd Prince of San Severo, rebui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Metropolitan City of Naples, Its province-level municipality is the third-most populous Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 3,115,320 residents, and Naples metropolitan area, its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately 20 miles. Founded by Greeks in the 1st millennium BC, first millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the eighth century BC, a colony known as Parthenope ( grc, Παρθενόπη) was established on the Pizzofalcone hill. In the sixth century BC, it was refounded as Neápolis. The city was an important part of Magna Graecia, played a major role in the merging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Amalfi
Carlo Amalfi or Aniello (1707– 1787) was an Italian painter, active in the Kingdom of Naples as mainly a portrait artist. Biography Carlo was born in Piano di Sorrento or Vico Equense. Among his most prominent portraits is that of Prince Raimondo di Sangro, located in the Cappella Sansevero of Naples. Other works by Amalfi can be seen in churches in Nocera, and in the grand council hall of Castel Capuano in Naples, where he worked in 1752 alongside the quadrature painter Giovanni Battista Natali. He also painted some genre works in the style of Gaspare Traversi Gaspare Traversi (c. 1722 – 1 November 1770) was an Italian Rococo Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymme ....Treccani entry. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Amalfi Carlo 1707 births 1787 deaths People from Sorrento People from Campania 18th-century Italian painters Italian m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Persico
Paolo Persico (1796), was an Italian sculptor of the late- Baroque, active at and near Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis .... He is best known for sculptures in the gardens of Palace of Caserta, including the figures of ''Diana and Acteon'' in a fountain. He also contributed statues of the ''Lions'' for the entrance stairway, a ''Faun'', ''The Gladiator'', and an ''Apollo''. His work at Caserta was a collaborative project with contributions by Angelo Brunelli, Pietro Solari, Andrea Violani, and Gaetano Salomone. by Pietro Napoli-Signorelli. Volume II, 2nd edition, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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