SANTACROCE, Girolamo
(b. 1502, Nola, d. 1537, Napoli)

Tomb of Carlo Gesualdo

c. 1523
Marble
Museo Nazionale di San Martino, Naples

The wall tomb of Carlo Gesualdo, Knight of Jerusalem (died in 1523), now kept in the Museum of San Martino, comes from the destroyed sixteenth-century chapel of San Giovanni Battista in the church of the Certosa di San Martino.




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