The Pio Monte della Misericordia is a church in the historic center of Naples, southern Italy.

A charity brotherhood (Pio Monte della Misericordia in Italian meaning Pious Mount of Mercy in English) was founded in August 1601 by seven young nobles, who met every Friday at the Hospital for Incurables and ministered to the sick.

[1][2] In 1602 they established an institution and commissioned a small church,[1] built by Gian Giacomo di Conforto, near the staircase leading to the Cathedral, on the corner of the Via dei Tribunali and the Vico, and Vicoletto, of Zuroli.

[3] From 1658 to 1678 the edifice was enlarged, also with the annexation of neighbouring structures, by architect Francesco Antonio Picchiati, forming a complex with a palace and a renewed church.

The noblemen of the brotherhood at Pio Monte della Misericordia were looking for painters "to give permanent visual expression to their sense of charitable mission”.