Friday, September 10, 2010

Capella Sansevero

I wish I could have taken pictures of some the sculptures in this fantastic funerary chapel for the Sansevero family in 1590. The ones I liked had names like “Sweetness of the Marital Yoke , “Modesty”, “Sincerity” , “Chastity”, and “Education”. There was no explanations or descriptions of the sculptures, so Liz and I had fun making up interpretations of the sculptures. There were also lots of opulent tombs, many paintings, and in the basement were some mysteriously embalmed bodies with their circulatory systems still totally intact. No one knows how they managed to do that. I did get one picture before they yelled at me to stop, and this was such a cool place that on the way out I bought the book!


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