Santa Maria Donnaromita is a former church located on via Paladino in

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A church at the site was first founded by nuns putatively fleeing in 1025 from

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, and thus initially gave the monastery the title: ''Monasterium Monialum Santa Mariae de Percejo de Constantinopoli ordini Cisterciensium regulae San Bernardi''. In time this became the church of ''Santa Mariae dominarum de Romania de Neapolitanum ordinis Cisterciensis''.Notizie del bello dell'antico e del curioso della città di Napoli
Volume 3, 1870, by Carlo Celano, Giovanni Battista Chiarini, page 648. By 14th century a church on the present plan was built, and refurbished in the 16th century by Giovanni Francesco di Palma along with construction of the convent and cloisters by

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. Further reconstructions in the 16th and 17th centuries gave the complex its

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imprint. In the 19th century, the church was suppressed and became an engineering school. It was damaged during the Second World War. The interior ceiling (1587-1590) was decorated by Giovanni Andrea Magliuolo and painted by Teodoro d'Errico; on the counterfacade is an ''Epiphany'' (1728), while the cupola was frescoed by Luca Giordano. In the apse are the remains of the main altar sculpted by the brothers

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and Pietro Ghetti; The pavement was designed by Donato Massa. In the chapel, Duke Theodore's remains are housed in a reused ancient Roman sarcophagus.

References

Bibliography

*Vincenzo Regina, ''Le chiese di Napoli. Viaggio indimenticabile attraverso la storia artistica, architettonica, letteraria, civile e spirituale della Napoli sacra'', Newton and Compton Editor, Naples 2004.

External links

Church of Santa Maria Donnaromita at Napoligrafia website.
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