Cappella cimiteriale FRANCESCO FEMMINELLA

A single-storey cemetery chapel, square in plan, its interior lined with burial niches. This is a small, self-contained monument to the dead, its design a precise exercise in funerary architecture. The building sits on a low plinth of two steps, above which runs a richly moulded base course and a band of red marble. The corners are marked by stone pilasters with moulded bases, flat fluting, and capitals carved with acanthus leaves, the classic vocabulary of the Renaissance, repurposed for a final resting place.

The stone entablature is a careful composition of a double-banded architrave, a plain frieze punctuated by ventilation holes, and a moulded cornice with dentil decoration. The cladding alternates white and red marble in a diamond pattern. The round-arched portal is framed by a stone band bearing thirteen cherubs, one at the keystone, and a narrower band incised with the chapel’s dedication. Above the door, a red marble cross; before it, a gate of geometric and floral ironwork. On the other elevations, a central round-headed window, bricked up at the rear. Inside, the same white-and-red marble repeats in the niches and a star-patterned floor.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.