Resumen de Procida e il suo patrimonio d'arte disconosciuto. Nuova luce sulla chiesa di Santa Maria della Pietà nella seconda metà del XVIII secolo
The manifestations relating to Procida as the Italian Capital of Culture in 2022, by privileging the most events of contemporary art, neglected all the interesting artistic patrimony conserved in the churches on the island. This resulted in a dismissal of the distinctive artistic physiognomy and the identity of the island, which was closely linked to the Neapolitan environment.
Evidence of Procida's artistic vitality is provided by the important church of Santa Maria della Pietà. The present article reconstructs the challenging phases of the work undertaken in the architectural rebuilding of this church and the sculptural decoration in stucco and marble, between 1766 and 1784, which involved the workshop of Michele Starace and the marble workers Baldassare di Luca and Angelo Manzillo, all of Neapolitan extraction and "minor" yet not negligible exponenets in Parthenopean artistic culture of the late eighteenth century
