the second room of the San Severo chapel, known as the Apartment of the Phoenix, where the Anatomical Machines, skeletons of a man and a woman in an upright position, with the arteriovenous system almost perfectly intact, are housed in two display cases. The Machines were made by the Palermo doctor Giuseppe Salerno, and some eighteenth-century sources recently revealed that the male anatomical machine was purchased in 1756 by Raimondo di Sangro, following a public exhibition that the Sicilian anatomist held in Naples.

---

Size: 1481px × 2332px
Location: Napoli, Campania, Italy
Photo credit: © Antonio Balasco / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: art, cappella, chapel, christ, classic, cristo, decoration, di, interior, italy, museum, naples, napoli, prince, principe, raimondo, san, sangro, severo, travel, veiled, velato, visit