Santa Maria di Piedigrotta is a

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-style church in

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, Italy; it is located in the neighborhood or quartiere of

Piedigrotta Piedigrotta (; ; "at the foot of the grotto") is a section of the Chiaia quarter of Naples, Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Ital ...

. A church at the site was consecrated by 1353, and dedicated to the ''Birth of the Virgin''. It was established at the site of an older chapel sheltering a wooden Byzantine icon of the Virgin ''dell'Itria'' (Odigitria). Legend holds the Virgin appeared to three individuals requesting the church to be built. In 1453, it was ceded to the Canons Regular of the Lateran, and it is still belongs to the order. It has undergone a number of restorations and reconstructions including 1520, 1820, and 1853. The present facade dates from 1853, and was designed by Errico Alvino, with sculptures by Bernardo Manco . The adjacent cloister was designed by Tommaso Malvito. In the chapel of the ''Madonna di Pompei'' are a ''Crucifixion'', and a ''Pietà with Anthony of Padua'' by Wenzel Cobergher. The next chapel has a ''Martyrdom of Agostino d'Ipponi'' by Giuseppe Mancinelli and a ''Marriage of Joseph and Mary'' by Bernardo Cavallino . The church once held works by Hemsel, Francesco Santafede,

Giovanni Bernardo Lama Giovanni Bernardo Lama (1508–1579) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Naples. He was the son of a generally unknown artist, Matteo Lama. He was the apprentice of Giovanni Antonio D’Amato, then Polidoro da Ca ...

, Maerten de Vos, and Belisario Corenzio.

Sources

* * Portions derived from Italian Wikipedia entry.

External links

Website for Parish Church
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