View of the Cloisters

Seventeenth-century architecture in Naples, under her Spanish rulers with their native love for the plataresque, witnessed the rise of a decorative style of dazzling richness and most intense polychromy produced by inlaid coloured marbles. However, Cosimo Fanzago’s large cloisters of the Certosa di San Martino are close to Florentine architecture, the elegant arcades would not be out of place in fifteenth-century Florence.