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Chapel of the Purità

  • Visit: about 20 min
Chapel of the Purità
Photo: Sailko · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized

Baroque chapel in San Paolo Maggiore, among the finest expressions of Neapolitan Baroque, with works by Stanzione and Pacecco De Rosa.

In the basilica of San Paolo Maggiore, the chapel of the Purità is one of the finest expressions of Neapolitan Baroque. The Theatines built it to house a painting of the Madonna donated in 1641 by a noble priest.The best artists of the day worked on it: Dionisio Lazzari and Arcangelo Guglielmelli on the decoration, Massimo Stanzione and Pacecco De Rosa on the paintings, and Andrea Falcone on the sculptures.

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