Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth Century Neapolitan Convents by Helen Hills

Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth Century Neapolitan Convents

Helen Hills

320 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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More than any other European city, Baroque Naples was dominated by convents. Behind their imposing facades and highly decorated churches, the convents of Naples housed the daughters of the city's most exclusive families, women who, despite their c...

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