Santa Maria degli Angeli a Pizzofalcone is a

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-style church in

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, Italy. A church, designed by Francesco Grimaldi, was built at the site for the Theatine Order. Construction started in 1587 and was completed in 1610. The interior is decorated with paintings by

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, and

Andrea Vaccaro Andrea Vaccaro (baptised on 8 May 1604 – 18 January 1670) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Vaccaro was in his time one of the most successful painters in Naples, a city then under Spanish rule. Very successful and valued in his li ...

. The central nave and transept ceilings were frescoed ''Scenes from the Life of the Virgin'' (1668-1675) by

Giovanni Battista Beinaschi ''The Deploration of Abel'', Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Italian painter and engraver active in the Mannerism">Mannerist and Baroque style. Life He was born in Turin. He first trained in the Piedmont, under a painter by the n ...

. The Cupola was frescoed with a ''Coronation of the Virgin''. Some of these frescoes suffered damage from aerial bombing during the second World War.

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painted the large canvases in the apse and transept. In the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception is a canvas depicting the Virgin by

Massimo Stanzione Massimo Stanzione (also called Stanzioni; Frattamaggiore 1585 – Naples 1656) was an Italian Baroque painter, mainly active in Naples, where he and his rival Jusepe de Ribera dominated the painting scene for several decades. He was primarily a ...

, while Giovanni Bernardo Azzolino decorated the first and third chapels on the left side. In the choir is a canvas of ''San Gaetano'' (1662) by

Luca Giordano Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Early l ...

. The main altar by Giovanni Battista Broggia was made in Neoclassic style. It has a canvas by

Paolo De Matteis Paolo de Matteis (also known as ''Paolo de' Matteis''; 9 February 1662 – 26 January 1728) was an List of Italian painters, Italian painter. Biography He was born in Piano Vetrale, a hamlet of Orria, in the current Province of Salerno, and died ...

depicting ''Sant'Andrea in Extasis''.

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* * Portions derived from Italian Wikipedia entry.

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