Francesco Antonio Picchiati

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Francesco Antonio Picchiati (1619-1694) was an Italian architect from Naples. He was son of architect Bartolommeo Picchiati and is known primarily for three projects in Naples:

1. The chapel for the building at Monte della Misericordia, which contains Caravaggio's The Seven Works of Mercy;
2. The Spire of San Domenico to a design by Cosimo Fanzago. Picchiati was so intent on preserving and cataloging remnants of the original Greco-Roman city beneath the construction site that the work on the spire itself was eventually suspended and wasn't resumed until many years later.
3. The convent of Santa Croce di Luca, begun in 1643. The convent stood at the extreme western end of the old historic city. It was demolished in 1900 to make room for the new Polyclinic hospital; a small section was left standing as an historical marker.

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Blunt, Anthony; Alastair Lange, Christopher Tadgell (1978). Baroque and Rococo Architecture and Decoration. London: Elek. ISBN 006430115X.