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Santa Maria In Campitelli
Via dei Funari leads easterly out of Piazza Mattei towards Piazza Campitelli, where Santa Maria in Campitelli is a heavy, ornate church built by Carlo Reinaldi in 1667 to house an ancient image of the Virgin that had been deemed to have miraculous powers following respite from a plague. Everything in the church focuses on this small framed image, encased as it is in an incredibly ornate golden altar piece which fills the entire space between the clustered columns of the transept. There’s not much else to see in the church, although the paintings, including a dramatic Virgin with Saints by Luca Giordano, in the second chapel on the right, represent the Baroque at its most rampant.
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