Italia Napoli Walks in the city4

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Walks in the city
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Isabella dAragona, di Francesco Laurana 1487-88
Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum
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The Centro Storico (Historic Centre) is the
original core of the ancient city and a UNESCO
World Heritage Site since 1995. The orthogonal
grid of the Greek foundation of Neapolis is still
discernible and continues to provide the basic
form for the present day urban structure of the
city centre. Spaccanapoli is the road artery of
the district that divides Naples in two halves
and one of the east-to-west streets from the
original Greco-Roman city. The name is a popular
usage and means, literally, "Naples splitter".
Today, the street officially starts at Piazza
Gesù Nuovo and is officially named Via Benedetto
Croce.
Piazza Dante
Piazza Gesù
San Domenico
From piazza del Gesú to the end of via Benedetto
Croce, there is San Domenico Maggiore Church.
Built in 1283, and commissioned by King Charles
of Anjou for the Dominicans order, the church is
an example of  Gothic style.  The basilica has
been subjected to many changes during the
centuries compromising the original spaces.  Here
worked many of Italy's finest sculptors from Tino
da Camaino to Cosimo Fanzago, and painters, from
Pietro Cavallini to Titian, Michelangelo da
Caravaggio and Luca Giordano
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Piazza del Gesú
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PIAZZA SAN DOMENICO This small and lively square
along Spaccanapoli street, is ornated with the
18th-century Guglia di San Domenico (spire)
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In the background of the piazza, the sheer size
of the Chiesa di San Domenico Maggiore whose
actual entrance is on the other side of the
building facing an inner courtyard
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Piazza San Domenico Maggiore Guglia di San
Domenico (spire) designed by Francesco Antonio
Picchiatti, Cosimo Fanzago, and Domenico
Antonio Vaccaro to honour St Dominic for stopping
the plague epidemic of 1656
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San Domenico Maggiore Church For this church,
the famous Flagellation  (1607-09) by Caravaggio
was commissioned and also Annunciation  (1557) by
Titian which is in the first chapel on the left
side of the transept.  Both paintings are on
display at the Capodimonte Museum.  In the church
hangs copies of these paintings
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Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio,
Italian, 1571-1610) La Flagellazione di Cristo
286 cm 213 cm
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Titian (14901576) The Annunciation
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Titian (14901576) The Annunciation
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The Machine for the Forty Hours is a complex
liturgical apparatus that was used for
the adoration of the Eucharistic Sacrament over a
period of 40 hours, the time Christ spent in the
tomb
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San Domenico Maggiore Church
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13th century
Marco Pino (1521-1582) Battesimo di Cristo, 1564
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The Sacristy of San Domenico Maggiore
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The impressive Sacristy of San Domenico Maggiore,
in a suspended gateway close to the vault,
contains 38 wooden coffins, or arks, with the
bodies of 10 Aragonese princes and other
Neapolitan nobles, who died in the 15th and 16th
centuries.  The sarcophagi, richly dressed
in doxycycline generic clothes made of silk,
brocade and other material, are distributed in
two rows, one above the other.  The smaller
coffins of the lower row are generally of
anonymous individuals, while the larger coffins
of the upper row are identified by the
coats-of-arms and the names of the personages
buried inside
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The sacristy houses a series of sepulchres of
members of the royal Aragonese family, including
that of King Ferdinand I. The remains of
the Blessed Raymond of Capua, a former Master
General of the Dominican Order, also rest there.
Coffins of members of the royal Aragonese family
(covered in red, upper level). The green one is
of Isabella d'Aragona, Duchess of Milan (1525),
who had Leonard da Vinci at her court
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Vault of the sacristy, fresco Triumph of the
Faith in the Dominican Order by Francesco
Solimena
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The majority of the individuals had been embalmed
and this is certainly not surprising, considering
the high social class of the individuals buried
in San Domenico.  From the physician Ulisse
Aldrovandi we know that during the Renaissance
"the European kings and great personages used to
entrust embalming of their bodies to their
doctors and surgeons" (Aldrovandi 1602). The very
complex evisceration and embalming methods
indicate long-practiced and diffused customs but
some well preserved individuals show no apparent
signs of embalming. In this case the natural
mummification of the bodies can probably be
attributed to the very dry microclimatic
conditions of the Basilica.  
The mummies of San Domenico Maggiore are unique
in Italy not only for the antiquity and excellent
state of preservation of the bodies, but also for
the fame of the personages, whose lives and
causes of death are well known.  King Ferrante
II, for example, died of malaria, while the
Marquis of Pescara died of pulmonary
tuberculosis.  The possibility of comparing the
paleopathological with the historical data
provided extremely interesting results
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Palazzo Saluzzo di Corigliano and Guglia di San
Domenico (spire)
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Over the centuries, the Church of San Domenico
has undergone several transformations and radical
restoration after earthquakes and fires, or
because of changes in taste
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Guglia di San Domenico (detail)
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Guglia di San Domenico (detail)
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S. Agnese
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B.Margarita
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San Domenico
Nilo
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Piazza San Domenico Maggiore Corno Napoletano
(bad luck fortuna sfortuna) Installation of the
artist Lello Esposito
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Piazzetta Nilo church Sant'Angel (Sant'Angelo a
Nilo)
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Sant'Angelo a Nilo takes its name from the
Egyptian Nile, which was venerated here by the
Egyptian merchants
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Begun in 1385 as a chapel, the current appearance
dates from a 1709 rebuilding
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Sant'Angelo a Nilo is a Roman Catholic church
located on the Decumano Inferiore (Spaccanapoli
street). It stands diagonally across from San
Domenico Maggiore. It is known for containing the
monumental Rennaissance-style tomb of Cardinal
Rainaldo Brancacci by Donatello and Michelozzo,
one of the major sculptural works in the city.
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Piazzetta Nilo
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Palazzo Sangro di Vietri Via San Domenico Maggiore
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Piazzetta Nilo
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The Statue of the Nile God is an Ancient Roman,
likely Hellenistic, marble statue dating from the
2nd to 3rd century A.C.
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Text Internet Pictures Sanda Foisoreanu
Marcello Erardi Internet
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2018
Sound Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Dicitencello
vuie (Falvo) Musica Proibita Op 5 A Vucchella
Arietta di Posillipo (P.Tosti)