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Underground Chamber

The area today named the Underground Chamber now looks very different from how the Prince of Sansevero originally envisaged it. He conceived it as a small funerary temple for his descendants, half above and half beneath the level of the main nave of the Chapel. For reasons unknown, however, the project was never finished by Raimondo di Sangro or his heirs.

In a few letters addressed to the Academician of the Crusca, Giovanni Giraldi, and to the physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet, the Prince describes his design in detail. The oval temple (the shape is still preserved) “will appear to be excavated from the rock, and will be well lit by a cupola, which shall have a number of windows”. It would have been “divided into eight arcades with the same number of columns”, and the arches would have housed the marble caskets of the bones of his descendants.

Above all, the centre of the underground temple would have housed Sanmartino’s Veiled Christ, lit by two eternal lamps designed by the Prince and placed at the feet and head of the statue. It is not known with absolute certainty whether the Christ was ever placed there, but it is highly improbable. A slab of marble placed at the centre of the Chamber shows the intention of di Sangro to place the Neapolitan sculptor’s masterpiece here.

This cave tomb (the Prince described it as “une éspèce de caveau”), illuminated by a perpetual flame and enriched by the beauty of the Veiled Christ, was meant to have, within the overall design of the Chapel, a symbolic role which was far from secondary for its designer. Currently, the Chamber houses display cases with the two Anatomical Machines and a large fragment of the eighteenth-century flooring.

Underground Chamber
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  • THE SANSEVERO CHAPEL
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    • Cappella Sansevero – Progetto iconografico
    • Cappella Sansevero – Origini
    • Cappella Sansevero – Fasto settecentesco
  • THE VEILED CHRIST
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    • Cristo Velato – The masterpiece
    • Cristo Velato – The legend of the veil
  • Raimondo di Sangro
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    • Raimondo Di Sangro – Altre Opere
    • Raimondo Di Sangro – Hanno Detto Di Lui
    • Raimondo Di Sangro – Life – Childhood and youth
    • Raimondo Di Sangro – Life – His last years
    • Raimondo Di Sangro – Life – Maturity
    • Raimondo Di Sangro – Myth
    • Raimondo Di Sangro – Opere letterarie e scientifiche
    • Raimondo Di Sangro – Popular legends
    • Raimondo Di Sangro – Rapporto Con Gli Artisti
    • Raimondo Di Sangro – Sperimentazioni
  • the Statues
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    • Statue delle Virtù – Decorum
    • Statue delle Virtù – Disillusion
    • Statue delle Virtù – Education
    • Statue delle Virtù – Liberality
    • Statue delle Virtù – Modesty
    • Statue delle Virtù – Religious Zeal
    • Statue delle Virtù – Self-control
    • Statue delle Virtù – Sincerity
    • Statue delle Virtù – Sweetness of the marital yoke
  • the Anatomical Machines
  • OTHER WORKS OF ART
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    • Altre opere – Dipinti – Madonna and Child
    • Altre opere – Dipinti – Pietà
    • Altre opere – Dipinti – Portrait of Vincenzo di Sangro
    • Altre opere – Dipinti – Ritratto di Raimondo di Sangro
    • Altre opere – Sacristy
    • Altre opere – Tomb of Raimondo di Sangro
    • Altre opere – Vault
    • Altre Statue – Monument to Alessandro di Sangro, Patriarch of Alexandria
  • Multimedia
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    • Multimedia – Video
    • Multimedia – Floor Labyrinth
  • Projects
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Orari di apertura dal 30 ottobre 2020
Da venerdì a domenica: 9.00 - 19.00 Chiuso lunedì e martedì Ultimo ingresso
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Friday to Sunday: 9.00 am - 7.00 pmClosed Mondays and Tuesdays Last entry 30 mins before closing
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