Video Church
Shooting and installation are the responsibility of the Giampiero Buonsante (webtvconversano)
The comment was made by the Doctor Claudio
Shooting and installation are the responsibility of the Giampiero Buonsante (webtvconversano)
The comment was made by the Doctor Claudio
Schena Editore, 2009
It should be noted at the outset that the history of the house Acquaviva of Aragon, and in particular of the Monastery of St Doctors Conversano, is marked by irreparable losses documentary: the damage from the archive Conversano Acquaviva D'Aragona Bourbons during the riots of 1799, the devastating fire in the cathedral of the city and its stock surrender in 1911, and finally last but not least, the unfortunate fire a substantial part of the precious documents "an entire wardrobe! kept in the Monastery, which occurred three decades ago, are the stages of a progressive and permanent loss of many aspects of many dynastic memories and towns, not just loss that has affected and hindered the study of monuments. makes this loss, these contributions are therefore very valuable documentary: real fragments survived a huge accident, which can not easily open up other surprises. The building was founded by Catherine Acquaviva and turned to the interest of Giangirolamo II Acquaviva, Count of the city, and his wife, Isabella Filomarino, already in the twenties of the seventeenth century in a Monastra Cappuccinelle dedicated to Count particular devotion to the Saints Medici. They are authentic, of course the arms of the reservoir within the church as well as numerous documentary evidence found up to now and also the historiographical tradition; Except that in recent years have emerged some new features that can significantly complicate the framework of assumptions sedimented .
This news revolves around the role, played only recently emerged in the erection of the building by the famous Archbishop of Naples at the time of Masaniello Filomarino Ascanio and his familiares he held the role that he obviously had not only be that of a mere historical and cultural reference, but real generous actor, that as a patron - taking part in the construction and decoration of the church, even through the presence of nuns and Mother Superior in close relationship with him, the first new development occurring there is the altarpiece depicts Sant'Urbano baptizing Cecilia and Valerian, the features Isabella dei Conti and the painting bears Giangirolamo also evidently as already suggested, an allusion to Urban the Eighth, Barberini Pope, under whose auspices and protection then would place the accounts of the city. in particular the same Giangirolamo agrees with the Pope pro-French and anti-English political horizons that lead to even a few years of incarceration in prisons in Madrid. The blade is deployed with all its evidence also portraiture as an implicit political manifesto, which contains a clear manifestation of the broad political participation of the Pope.