De Mura performs the great fresco cycle with episodes from the life of San Benedetto, between the years 1738 and 1746, in the church of SS. Severino and Sossio in Naples; for this vast work, he made fourteen sketches, now preserved at the Pio Monte della Misericordia and at the Capodimonte Museum. De Mura is at the height of his pictorial maturity, characterized by great composure and academic rigor. Other sketches of the same cycle are the four & nbsp; Studies of Angels, in monochrome, still preserved & nbsp; in the Pio Monte della Misericordia collection.