Chiesa del Divino Amore, Baroque church in historic Naples, Italy.
The Chiesa di Santa Maria del Divino Amore, also called San Camillo, stands in the Pendino quarter on piazzetta del Divino Amore. Rebuilt by Giovanni Battista Manni at the start of the 18th century, it has a Greek-cross plan. It lacks a real facade because it was built over 16th-century structures: the entrance corridor is the old palace atrium. Inside, Ferdinando Sanfelice designed the marble and stucco decoration, including the altar in inlaid marbles.
The church emerged in the early 18th century from the transformation of Palazzo Villani by architect Giovanni Battista Manni. This conversion turned an existing building into a new religious site.
The name comes from the adjoining convent of the Divino Amore, founded on the site of Palazzo Villani through Beatrice Villani. In the sacristy rooms hang an early Immacolata by Francesco De Mura and a Sacra Famiglia by Giovanni Angelo D'Amato; above the main altar is an Assunzione by Andrea Mattei, a little-known pupil of Sebastiano Conca.
The church sits in Piazzetta del Divino Amore and is reachable via several small streets including Via del Grande Archivio and Via de Blasiis. The location is relatively central and fits easily into a walk through the historic city.
The church has no real facade: it was built over 16th-century structures, and the access corridor reuses the atrium of the old Palazzo Villani. The convent cloister, erected in the 17th century by Francesco Antonio Picchiatti, lost its western side when the Risanamento street works cut through it.
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