The Saint Sebastian Preti undertook for thehighaltar of a Naples chapel was roundly rejected by the nuns who had commissioned it: they were scandalised by its frankly carnal aspect.
There are other windows, high above the main altar, that let in rich white sunlight, and climb to the top of thealtar space to a summit that pours a bath of light down onto the proceedings below.
An altar is erected and piled high with offerings to the invisible visitors: flowers, ribbons, coloured candles, tamales (steam-cooked cornmeal dough), fruit and corn.