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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 04/06/2026 16:39:00

A small but extraordinary baroque oratory tucked beside the Basilica of San Severo fuori le Mura in the Sanita district of Naples, the Cappella dei Bianchi is the meeting chapel of the Confraternity of the Bianchi di Sant Antonio, a lay brotherhood founded in 1621 that bought the chapel from local friars to serve as the burial place of its members. The interior is a richly stuccoed, single-room oratory whose walls and ceiling are densely covered with paintings. Twelve canvases along the side wa...