# The Healing of the Cripple at the Pool of Bethesda [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LANFRANCO, Giovanni]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary The Healing of the Cripple at the Pool of Bethesda c. 1644 Fresco Santi Apostoli, Naples The new church type, developed in the Baroque period, offered large format vertical picture surfaces on the inner façade and on the dividing wall between the nave and the choir, which were used both for oil paintings and for frescoes. It was not as easy to see the pictures on the inner façade because of the light from the windows, yet it was costumary to incorporate these surfaces into the iconographic program. The most magnificent solutions for this space were found in Naples, an example being Lanfranco's The Healing of the Cripple at the Pool of Bethesda on the entrance wall of the church of Santi Apostoli. This fresco was executed in collaboration with the quadratura painter Viviano Codazzi. ## Related artworks - [Angelica and Medoro]() - [Christ Ascending]() - [Christ Served by Angels]() - [Coronation of the Virgin with St Augustine and St William of Aquitaine]() - [Crossing cupola paintings]() - [Crucifixion \(detail\)]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Cupola vault \(detail\)]() - [Cupola vault]() - [Design for vault frescoes]() - [Ecstasy of St Margaret of Cortona]() - [Hagar in the Wilderness]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()