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La Basílica de Santo Domingo Mayor (en italiano: Basilica di San Domenico Maggiore) es una importante iglesia de Nápoles ubicada en la homónima plaza, de las más interesantes desde el punto de vista histórico y artístico.
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La Basílica de Santo Domingo Mayor ( en italiano: Basilica di San Domenico Maggiore) es una importante iglesia de Nápoles ubicada en la homónima plaza, de las más interesantes desde el punto de vista histórico y artístico. El 23 de febrero de 1921 la iglesia fue declarada basílica menor.
- History
- Square and Façade
- Interior
- The Choir
- The Museum
- Convent and Library
- Other Burials
Dominic Guzman, on arriving in Bologna in January 1218, was impressed by the vitality of the city and quickly recognized the importance of this university town to his evangelizing mission. A convent was established at the Mascarella church by the Blessed Reginald of Orleans. As this convent soon became too small for their increasing number, the pre...
The square in front of the church is paved with pebbles, as it was in medieval times. The square was used by the faithful to listen to the sermon from the preacher from the pulpit on the left corner of the church. It was also the original cemetery. The column in the middle of the square is a brickwork column with the bronze statue of St Dominic (16...
Nave
The church consists of a central nave, two lateral aisles, several side chapels, a transept, a choir and an apse. The interior was completely renewed in Baroque style with refined elegance and well-balanced proportions by the architect Carlo Francesco Dotti (1678–1759). In the lunettes above the Ionic columns along the nave we can see 10 paintings, depicting episodes (true and untrue) in the history of the church. The first two are by Giuseppe Pedretti (1696–1778), the others by Vittorio Biga...
Chapels on the right side
1. St. Rose of Lima : the painting above the altar, portraying the Ecstasy of the Saint, is by Cesare Gennari. The altar-piece Virgin appearing to St. Hyacinth by Ludovico Carracci(now in the Louvre), used to stand here. 2. St. Vincent Ferrer : the painting above the altar (St. Vincent brings a young boy back to life) is by Donato Creti (1731). On both sides of the chapel are two painting, representing the Miracles of the Saint, by Giuseppe Pedretti. The elegant stucco angels are by Angelo Pi...
Chapels on the left side
1. Chapel of St. Louis Bertrand : contains two canvases: (on the right) Blessed Pietro Geremia by Alessandro Tiarini and (on the left) St. Albert the Great by Clemente Bevilacqua(died 1754) 2. Chapel of the Holy Blood has some important paintings : (on the right) Annunciation by Denis Calvaert (1540–1619), (above the central altar) St. Michael Archangel by Giacomo Francia (1484–1557), (on the left) St Martin de Porres by Renzo Magnanini, (in the big lunette) The Disputation of St Catherine Vi...
This monumental choir was moved behind the high altar in the 17th century. The original altar was a masterpiece decorated with basreliefs and nine sculptures by Giovanni di Balduccio (1330), a pupil of Giovanni Pisano. Now only the statue of St Peter the Martyr still exists and is on display in the City Museum. The present high altar was made by Al...
The church's small museum houses many important works of art and a wide collection of precious reliquaries, chalices and monstrances. A small selection : 1. The reliquary of Saint Louis IX, king of France, is of special interest as a most elaborate example in Gothic style of an unknown French goldsmith at the end of the 13th century. It was a gift ...
The square-shaped convent next door is also worth visiting for its cloisters (14th, 15th and 16th centuries) with various tombstones and memorial tablets in its walls. The convent was confiscated by the state in 1866 and served as a military hospital during WWII. The gradual recovery of the premises made it possible to transfer young religious who ...
La basilica di San Domenico Maggiore è una chiesa monumentale di Napoli sita in posizione pressoché centrale rispetto al decumano inferiore, nella piazza omonima. Voluta da Carlo II d'Angiò ed eretta tra il 1283 e il 1324, divenne la casa madre dei domenicani nel regno di Napoli e chiesa della nobiltà aragonese. La basilica ...
Piazza San Domenico Maggiore (en español: Plaza Santo Domingo Mayor) es una de las plazas más importantes de la ciudad de Nápoles, en Italia. Se encuentra en Spaccanapoli, no lejos de Piazza del Gesù Nuovo.
La Basílica de San Giovanni Maggiore es un edificio destinado al culto católico de la ciudad de Nápoles, Italia. Está emplazada en el centro histórico de Nápoles , declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1995.
