The Lamentation
Real court faces in expressions of grief.
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Because the fifteenth-century Aragonese court imported Tuscan artists to give its capital the look of the northern Renaissance; so this church in particular became a gallery of Florentine sculpture inside a Baroque city.
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"The Tuscan Renaissance church of Naples": Sant'Anna dei Lombardi (Monteoliveto) was built in 1411 and became the favoured church of the Aragonese court, which brought Florentine sculptors to it โ and it is today the richest church in Naples in Renaissance sculpture rather than painting. Its masterpiece is Guido Mazzoni's Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1492): eight life-size terracotta figures around the body of Christ, their faces real portraits of court figures (one is said to be King Alfonso II himself) with grief so realistic it shocks โ among the most powerful sculpture of the fifteenth century. It also holds the Piccolomini chapel with sculpture by Antonio Rossellino and Benedetto da Maiano, a painted ceiling by Giorgio Vasari, and the old sacristy with inlaid wooden stalls showing views of cities โ Vasari is said to have painted its ceiling in a hundred days. Closed for decades after the 1980 earthquake, it was restored and reopened.
Real court faces in expressions of grief.
Painted in a hundred days over the old sacristy.
Piazza Monteoliveto 44, Naples