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User Reviews
Arcangelo Molinaro (7 months ago)
The Church should be open on Sunday mornings from October 2023 to May 2024 from 10.30 to 11.45, barring unforeseen circumstances.
The Church should be open on Sunday mornings from October 2023 to May 2024 from 10.30 to 11.45, barring unforeseen circumstances.
Ferdinando Muscariello (8 months ago)
The church of the Holy Apostles was founded in the 5th century on the ruins of a Roman temple perhaps dedicated to Mercury. The bare façade of the church contrasts with the sumptuous internal baroque decorations inspired by Theatine. Most of the pictorial decoration is by Giovanni Lanfranco who frescoes the barrel vault of the nave with scenes of Martyrs and Glory of Saints Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew and John, and paints Prophets, Patriarchs and Apostles in the triangles on the arches of the windows and Virtues in the bows. Lanfranco also painted the scene of the Piscina Probatica in collaboration with Viviano Codazzi on the counter-façade, the frescoes of the cruise and the five paintings of the choir. On the arches of the chapels there are paintings by Francesco Solimena while the entire church is decorated with valuable golden stuccoes. Among the most important works located in the chapels should be remembered: the canvas by Francesco De Mura in the first chapel on the left depicting the Blessed Paolo d'Arezzo and Giovanni Marinoni receiving the offering of their son from the Marchesa Patrizi; the refined frescoes with Stories of San Gregorio by Giacomo del Po in the second chapel on the left; the two busts of Fabrizio and Flaminio Antinori by Giuseppe Finelli finished by Bartolomeo Mori in 1657 in the fourth chapel on the right, and the funerary monument to Vincenzo Ippolito by Giuseppe Sanmartino in the second chapel on the right. The most important work is the Filomarino Altar, located on the left in the cross, commissioned to Francesco Borromini by Cardinal Ascanio Filomarino, who had close contacts with the papal court of Urban VIII, the monument, built between 1642 and 1647. Opposite, in the right arm of the cross, is the Pignatelli chapel with the marble and semi-precious stone altar by Ferdinando Sanfelice, which translates the Filomarino altar into eighteenth-century language. In the same chapel, in addition to the frescoes by Lanfranco depicting the Martyrdom and Glory of Saints Andrew and James, there are paintings by Luca Giordano depicting the Birth and Presentation of Mary. The apse dome, in whose plumes Lanfranco still paints Evangelists, is decorated by Giovan Battista Beinaschi with the Paradise. (from the poster displayed) Unfortunately it needs to be restored. Worth visiting anyway
The church of the Holy Apostles was founded in the 5th century on the ruins of a Roman temple perhaps dedicated to Mercury. The bare façade of the church contrasts with the sumptuous internal baroque decorations inspired by Theatine. Most of the pictorial decoration is by Giovanni Lanfranco who frescoes the barrel vault of the nave with scenes of Martyrs and Glory of Saints Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew and John, and paints Prophets, Patriarchs and Apostles in the triangles on the arches of the windows and Virtues in the bows. Lanfranco also painted the scene of the Piscina Probatica in collaboration with Viviano Codazzi on the counter-façade, the frescoes of the cruise and the five paintings of the choir. On the arches of the chapels there are paintings by Francesco Solimena while the entire church is decorated with valuable golden stuccoes. Among the most important works located in the chapels should be remembered: the canvas by Francesco De Mura in the first chapel on the left depicting the Blessed Paolo d'Arezzo and Giovanni Marinoni receiving the offering of their son from the Marchesa Patrizi; the refined frescoes with Stories of San Gregorio by Giacomo del Po in the second chapel on the left; the two busts of Fabrizio and Flaminio Antinori by Giuseppe Finelli finished by Bartolomeo Mori in 1657 in the fourth chapel on the right, and the funerary monument to Vincenzo Ippolito by Giuseppe Sanmartino in the second chapel on the right. The most important work is the Filomarino Altar, located on the left in the cross, commissioned to Francesco Borromini by Cardinal Ascanio Filomarino, who had close contacts with the papal court of Urban VIII, the monument, built between 1642 and 1647. Opposite, in the right arm of the cross, is the Pignatelli chapel with the marble and semi-precious stone altar by Ferdinando Sanfelice, which translates the Filomarino altar into eighteenth-century language. In the same chapel, in addition to the frescoes by Lanfranco depicting the Martyrdom and Glory of Saints Andrew and James, there are paintings by Luca Giordano depicting the Birth and Presentation of Mary. The apse dome, in whose plumes Lanfranco still paints Evangelists, is decorated by Giovan Battista Beinaschi with the Paradise. (from the poster displayed) Unfortunately it needs to be restored. Worth visiting anyway
ren face (2 years ago)
In the heart of Naples, in an almost secluded clearing, one of the most beautiful baroque churches full of paintings by the best authors
In the heart of Naples, in an almost secluded clearing, one of the most beautiful baroque churches full of paintings by the best authors
Stephane ThaiChang (2 years ago)
A very beautiful church. To visit
A very beautiful church. To visit
Ileana Zito (2 years ago)
Wonderful… it left me speechless not to mention the underground church with the tomb of the apostles Philip and James
Wonderful… it left me speechless not to mention the underground church with the tomb of the apostles Philip and James
