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Complesso Museale dell'Augustissima Arciconfraternita dei Pellegrini

Where Via Porta Medina alla Pignasecca, 41, Napoli

The Museum contains a sixteenth century church; a church of the eighteenth century (Medrano and Carlo Vanvitelli) great for the unique plan with two octagons connected by rectangles; the Holy Land (by the architect Giovanni Antonio Medrano); the setting of the everyday life of the “Arciconfraternita”: Exhibition of the Mandate and the Dressing Rooms. Everywhere there are valuable art paintings from artists including (from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century): B. Campi, A. Vaccaro, F. Fracanzano, O. Palumbo e D. Barra, G. Farelli, F. De Mura, G. Bonito, G. Diano; sculptures include: the bronze expressive statue of the kneeling founder Fabrizio Pignatelli, by Michelangelo Naccherino; in marble the Madonna with a Child by Francesco Laurana, the dramatic stucco of the Trinity group by Angelo Viva; wooden art including: polychrome statues of the fifteenth century authors of the Passion of Neapolitan, choir burl walnut wood patterned with a gold dome designed by Astarita; precious furniture and liturgical objects. There are important historical books including 1245 volumes and records and 328 precious parchments. The brothers wear a robe of red (from the sixteenth century to date), a symbol of love that recalls the blood of Christ shed for the redemption of mankind.

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