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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.
The masterpiece was carved from a single piece of marble and can be seen in Cappella Sansevero, Naples. The inscription on the book at the bottom of the sculpture depicts in Latin the words of the angel to the fisherman, made up of three different quotations from the Vulgate Bible put together: VINCULA TUA DISRUMPAM (Nahum, i. 13)
Cappella Sansevero, Naples Modesty or Chastity ( Italian : 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 still remains.
The exceptional details in the reproduction of the vessel system is behind a popular legend, referred in the aforementioned guide and also quoted by Benedetto Croce, saying that the two machines were realised through alchemy experiments done by Sansevero on two servants when still alive, [2] injecting in their body a quicksilver-based compound ...
Detail of Jesus's head and veil. Veiled Christ (Italian: Cristo velato) is a carved marble sculpture completed in 1753 by the Neapolitan artist Giuseppe Sanmartino.It is formed from a single block of white marble, and was commissioned by Raimondo di Sangro, a prince of Sansevero, as the centerpiece of the Cappella Sansevero, in Naples, Italy.
Sanmartino's Veiled Christ on exhibit at the Cappella Sansevero in Naples, Italy. Giuseppe Sanmartino (1720 – 1793) was a prominent Italian sculptor in Naples during the late Baroque period who focused on religious sculptures. [1] [2] [3] His most famous work is the Veiled Christ (1753) in Sansevero Chapel in Naples. [1]
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 Sansevero Chapel in Naples.
San Severo (pronounced [san seˈvɛːro]; formerly spelled Sansevero and previously known as San Severino; Northern Apulian: Sanzëvírë; Latin: Castellum Sancti Severini) is a comune (municipality) of c. 51,919 inhabitants in the province of Foggia, Apulia, Southern Italy.