NAPLES - Basilica of Santa Maria della Sanità

The Basilica of Santa Maria della Sanità stands above the site of the catacombs of San Gaudioso. The religious complex of Santa Maria della Sanità was founded as early as 1577, as shortly before, in the area where the catacombs of San Gaudioso are located, a panel with the image of Mary dating back to the 5th-6th century was found, now in the church. The discovery prompted the faithful to ask the then bishop of Naples Paolo Burali d'Arezzo to build a church in that area to dedicate to the cult of the Madonna. The construction of the work is due to the architect and Dominican friar Giuseppe Nuvolo, who completed the work between 1602 and 1610. The façade, with stucco decorations from the early 18th century, is flanked by a tall bell tower built between 1612 and 1614 and which has a majolica clock on the front added in the 18th century. The large dome, externally covered with yellow and green 18th-century majolica tiles from the workshop of Gaetano Massa, is one of the largest and most important in Naples. The church houses a 19th-century painted wooden statuette of Saint Vincent Ferrer, which was traditionally erected by the faithful in 1836 to defeat the cholera epidemic that struck the city. On the sides of the entrance to the church, two holy water stoups from the Vaccaria school, made of polychrome marble dating back to the mid-17th century, are leaning against the first columns and bear the coats of arms of the Dominican Order. Leaning against a column on the left in the transept is the monumental pulpit in marble inlay by Dionisio Lazzari from around 1678. There are eight chapels on each side, two of which are larger in correspondence with the transept and two more along the presbytery wall next to the apse of the central nave. The chapels are all delimited by a marble balustrade and are dominated inside by large high altars containing notable paintings from the Neapolitan seventeenth century. A valuable marble pincer staircase at the height of the apse leads to the presbytery of the church, raised above the nave. The presbytery is dominated by the high altar in polychrome marble dating back to the second half of the eighteenth century; the ciborium, a goldsmith's work by the Dominican lay brother Azaria, dated 1628, was also placed on the altar. The apse basin was decorated with the Eternal Father in glory by Crescenzio Gamba in the mid-eighteenth century. Below the presbytery is the crypt, once an ancient early Christian basilica. The frescoes on the ten side altars, commissioned during the works of 1628 to close the passages that led to the cemetery behind, depict the stories of martyrs, painted by the Solimenesque painter Bernardino Fera.
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[@sydneyr.cauveren7857]

Terrific filming of so much fabulous ART. Always sad to see so much restoration work required... Alas...Many Thanks from "Down Under", Massimo

[@MassimoNalli]

@@sydneyr.cauveren7857 many thanks to you Sydney 🙂

[@valentinagrilli1536]

che bello

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@@valentinagrilli1536 ciao grazie 😊

[@alessandrogiungato4098]

Complimentti bellissimo video saluti da taranto ❤❤

[@MassimoNalli]

@@alessandrogiungato4098 grazie molto gentile

[@MarianaAlbei-w3p]

Amen 🙏 Che buon Dio vi benedica Napoli

[@valdi4637]

Grandiosa chiesa, storia, arte, monumentalità e soprattutto tanta spiritualità, forse un po nascosta ma assai degna di essere visitata.

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Incredibile, ieri stavo proprio per chiederti un video su questa Chiesa.

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@@MassimoNalli Grazie 🙂

[@ТатьянаЛитвинова-ц2э]

WOW, una chiesa a cupola incrociata, come nella nostra Russia