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The selection and deployment of the pictorial decoration was a saga that involved many of the premier painters of early 17th century Rome and Naples. The
Deputation in charge of construction and decoration of the chapel, initially entrusted the pictorial decoration of the chapel to
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for the tabernacle, and 10,000 ducats to build the new chapel. On
February 5, 1601, the "elect of the city" appointed a committee of twelve lay members, called on the "Deputation" to build of the new chapel. Work began in 1608, ended in 1646. The cost exceeded 480,000
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to begin on the construction of the sacred place. Centuries later, after the Naples joined the
Kingdom of Italy, the chapel was exempted from lists of those religious structures confiscated by the state. Thanks to various papal bulls, the real Treasury Chapel of
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On
December 2, 1628, they sent out requests for a new proposals, this time also including local Neapolitan painters. None of the submissions were satisfactory. In 1630, the deputation commissioned a sample painting from the painter
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strongly opposed the exemption of the
Deputation from the jurisdiction of the diocesan order, even though the church did not fund its construction; however in 1605, the Deputation, in fact, won the
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does not belong to the diocesan curia, but to the city of Naples, and represented by an ancient institution, which still exists today, the "Deputation", elected from diverse zones of Naples.
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During the 17th and 18th centuries, the chapel was also used for musical activities, with the presence of masters such as
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In the years 1526 to 1527, Naples endured a siege by the French, a resurgence of the plague, and a volcanic eruption by
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with its accompanying earthquakes. The surviving
Neapolitans pledged to erect a chapel to their patron saint,
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Cavalier Giuseppe Cesari d'Arpino. A great painter in the splendor of fame and fortune nell'incostanza
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in 1305. The largest bronze sculptures, including a St Peter and Paul flanking the entrance, were made by
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in the three lunettes (1633) and in the arches. The four large altarpieces painted with oil on copper by
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Domenichino completed the majority of the frescoes in the chapel. He painted the four pinnacles:
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There are also fifty-four reliquary busts, all in all silver. The frescoes are by
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created the porphyry altar (1667) that frames the silver front (1692–1695) by
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of local painters had threatened to assassinate Reni, and caused him to flee.
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The design of the chapel was entrusted to the Theatine priest and architect
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in gold and silver was made by three goldsmiths Provençal, and donated by
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in Rome. They asked him to submit a painting depicting the
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San Gennaro emerges unscathed from the furnace of Cimitile
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of the kingdom of Naples, Milan, Borroni and Scotti 1846
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Architects and Engineers Neapolitans from '500 to '700,
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Patronage of Saints Gennaro, Agrippina and Agnello Abate
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History of a capital Naples from its origins to 1860
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537:Civil History of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
604:The Ten Wonders of the Treasure of San Gennaro
551:Storia civile e letteraria del regno di Napoli
42:Royal Chapel of the Treasure of St. Januarius
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158:. The painter was popular in Rome under Pope
245:Miracle of the infirm healed by the oil lamp
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