"No picture taking please, thank you,” says the mechanical voice of the chapel attendant when you enter the Chapel of Sansevero in the historic center of Naples as he checks your entrance ticket. Then you notice how small the chapel is about 90 square meters, cloistered with 18^th century art.

From the looming ceiling fresco by an artist named Francesco Maria Russo to numerous marble sculptures by various artists of the period each of which deserves an undivided attention, there is a dizzying air of abundance and excess that causes one—if you’re not careful enough—to suffer from aesthetic indigestion.