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The Basilica of Santa Maria della Sanit (or to St. Vincent Healthcare) is a basilicachurch in Naples. It is located inthe popularHealth Districtand and itis known as the San Vincenzo said or 'Munacone as dedicated to the Dominican saint Vincent Ferrer, much revered in the city was built to the design of the Dominican Fra Giuseppe Clouds in 1602-1613 on the site Catacombs of San Gaudioso. The complex of Santa Maria of Health was built by Fra 'Joseph Nuvolo between 1602 and 1610, while in 1613 the cupola was finished. The facade, with stucco decorations from the early eighteenth century, is flanked by a high bell tower built between 1612 and 1614 (the clock is eighteenth-century majolica). Externally hits the
beautiful tiled dome yellow and green, especially for its design and typical of the artist who designed it. The circular plan of the church is one of the first monumental architecture Counter-claims, it consists of a Greek cross and raised presbytery, this trick designed by architect brother preesitente to encompass the early Christian basilica, thus allowing direct access to the catacomb. The interior is vast and simple moldings and in the absence of colored decorations, but complex articulation of volumes: it is the Greek cross inscribed in a square. Many also are the works of art, the contemporary period, which exist along the nave and side chapels. On either side of the wall there are two fonts, multicolored marble, dating from the mid-seventeenth century, with the arms of the Dominican Order.
The first chapel to the right is dedicated to St. Nicholas, depicted in the altarpiece in the glory of the blessed Ceslao of Krakow and St. Louis Bertrand. On the right wall of the chapel was placed, the fresco of the Madonna of Health, from the crypt. The painting, dated between the fifth and sixth centuries, is the oldest known image of Mary in Naples. The second chapel, dedicated to St. Peter Martyr, keeps a table dating from around 1610, depicting the Martyrdom of St. Peter Martyr, a Dominican martyr, by the Florentine Giovanni Balducci. The third right, is St. Vincent Ferrer, Spanish Dominican priest,
represented in the painting by Luca Giordano while he was preaching to the crowd. In the oval side of Vincent Siola, the saint is depicted in the act of performing miracles. In the fourth chapel on the right, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, is the great altarpiece by Giovanni Bernardino Azzolino (1612), enclosed in a cona of carved and gilded wood in the first half of the seventeenth century: the painting, in the middle, depicting the Madonna Rosary and Saints.
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