Santa Maria sopra Minerva


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Cappella Carafa
The chapel was frescoed between 1489 and 1492 by Filippino Lippi and commissioned by Neapolitan Oliviero Cardinal Carafa, the protector of the Dominican Order. On the back wall is the Assumption of the Virgin.

(The chapel has its own English Wikipedia page here)
Related links:  Filippino Lippi (1457-1504)
Oliviero Carafa (1430-1511)

(Photo borrowed from internet)
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