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Chiesa di Santa Maria in Portico is a late-baroque church in the city center of Naples placed at the end of its homonymous street, just off the seaside promenade of the

Riviera di Chiaia The Riviera di Chiaia (''Chiaia's Riviera'') is a long street in the Italian city of Naples, running along the coast of the Gulf of Naples. On this street there are many ancient villas built by aristocratic families between the 16th and 19th ...

. While the original architect was

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in 1632; the facade was completed by

Arcangelo Guglielmelli Arcangelo Guglielmelli (1723) was an Italian architect and painter, active in his native Naples, Italy, in a late-Baroque style. He was involved in the building and reconstruction of churches, many of which had been damaged by the earthquakes of ...

in a pell-mell concoction of Mannerist and

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

styles, utilizing columns and pilasters of varying sizes, volutes, and even obelisks with typical Neapolitan appeal to color differences. Among the wealth of interior artwork are frescoes by

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and interior architectural sculpture by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro. In addition, there is an ''Annunciation'' by

Fabrizio Santafede Fabrizio Santafede or Fabrizio Santaféde (c. 1560–1623/28) was an Italian painter known for his altarpieces. He painted in a style that rejected the Mannerism popular in the Naples of his time and evident in the works of Francesco Curia. Lif ...

and an ''Assumption'' by Paolo de Matteis.

References

External links

Cose Di Napoli (Things of Naples--Association For Tourism and Cultural Promotion)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maria in Portico Naples Roman Catholic churches in Naples Baroque architecture in Naples 17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy