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4 unusual facts about Royal Chapel of the Treasure of San Gennaro


Belisario Corenzio

They also claim that when Guido Reni came in 1621 to Naples to paint in the Chapel of San Gennaro in the cathedral of the Naples Cathedral, Corenzio suborned an assassin to take his life.

Royal Chapel of the Treasure of San Gennaro

Giuseppe Maria Galanti, New historical and geographical description of the Two Sicilies in Two Volumes, Naples 1788 Volume II Literary Cabinet

The surviving Neapolitans pledged to erect a chapel to their patron saint, San Gennaro.

Ultimately, Stanzione's submission was not acceptable, and they entrusted the work to Jusepe de Ribera, who painted San Gennaro emerges unscathed from the furnace of Cimitile.



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