The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie Maggiore in Caponapoli is a place of worship in Naples.
The church, although it has an interior comparable to churches of the calibre of the Girolamini, is in a poor state of conservation (especially the exterior) and opens to the public only rarely. The beautiful church that recalls its name (Caponapoli was the highest part of the ancient city, where the acropolis stood and where, in the early Middle Ages, many monasteries were built) was founded in 1412 and rebuilt in 1516-32. It preserves inside a large part of the architectural decorations (remarkable those of the sandstone entablature above the chapels), while many of the many works it kept have been stolen. Among those left: in the transept and in the presbytery, paintings by G. B. Beinaschi who was buried there; in the chapel to the right of the presbytery, the tomb of Giovannello de Cuncto and his wife Lucrezia by Giovan Tommaso Malvito (1517); in the sacristy, Madonna delle Grazie by Giovanni da Nola, of which there is also the Deposition in the first chapel on the left; in the sixth chapel on the left, Incredulity of St. Thomas by Girolamo Santacroce.
