This is a picture of the High Alter at the Hermitage of Camaldoli, Naples, Italy. Replacing the ancient church accommodated on the site, the new complex was designed by Domenico Fontana, reflecting the sixteenth-century architecture of the late Renaissance of Campania.The monastery complex includes the main church with its bell tower, the large main guesthouse, with guest rooms overlooking a wide panorama from Vesuvius, Capri and Ischia 16 monastic cells, each with bathroom, heat and telephone two refectories meeting and reading room library conference room :â all surrounded by cultivated kitchen gardens. The property hosts numerous cell towers and satellite dishes, befitting its location on the highest point in Naples.The church's large altar is the work of Cosimo Fanzago, and numerous significant paintings and frescoes include those by Francesco Francanzano Angelo Mozzillo Luca Giordano (the Immaculate Conception, the Transfiguration and the Sacred Family in front of the Cross) Giovanni Bernardino Azzolini (The Miracle of St. Bernardino) Federico Barocci Antiveduto Gramatica and Massimo Stanzione (The Last Supper) Luigi Rodriguez, Fabrizio Santafede Cesare Fracanzano, and Ippolito Borghese.
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