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The Sansevero Chapel The Veiled Christ "A life-sized marble statue, representing Our Lord Jesus Christ dead, and covered in a transparent shroud carved from the same block as the statue." An extract from the accounting records signed by Raimondo di Sangro in favour of Giuseppe Sanmartino for making the statue.
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Entrance to the chapel. The Cappella Sansevero (also known as the Cappella Sansevero de' Sangri or Pietatella) is a chapel located on Via Francesco de Sanctis 19, just northwest of the church of San Domenico Maggiore, in the historic center of Naples, Italy. The chapel is more properly named the Chapel of Santa Maria della Pietà.
Oct 27, 2022 · Veiled Christ: the story of and artistic masterpiece. Sansevero prince, Raimondo di Sangro, commissioned a life-size statue of Jesus covered by a transparent shroud. The work should have been designed by the sculptor Antonio Corradini, who died prematurely and left just a small terracotta draft, now kept at the Museum of San Martino.
Veiled Christ. Veiled Christ ( Italian: Cristo velato) is a carved marble sculpture completed in 1753 by the Neapolitan artist Giuseppe Sanmartino. It is formed from a single block of white marble, and was commissioned by Raimondo di Sangro, a prince of Sansevero, as the centerpiece of the Cappella Sansevero, in Naples, Italy.
Feb 1, 2013 · ABSTRACT. A celebrated marble sculpture of the body of Jesus, known as Cristo Velato (Veiled Christ), by the 18th-century Neapolitan artist Giuseppe Sanmartino offers a dramatic demonstration of art as all-encompassing illusion. As such, Sanmartino's masterpiece provides a rare opportunity to deconstruct a multifaceted and richly deceptive perceptual experience into a collection of simple ...
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