San Zulian
San Zulian ( Venetian ) or San Giuliano ( standard Italian ) is a Renaissance church in Venice . It was built by Jacopo Sansovino and is consecrated to the doctor and martyr Julian von Emesa . San Zulian is located on the Campo of the same name in the San Marco sestiere near St. Mark's Square . The parish belongs to the parish of San Salvatore .
Building history
A first church was built on this site in the 9th century, redesigned several times over the years and completely rebuilt after the great fire of 1105, which also destroyed the old St. Mark's Church and the Doge's Palace . From 1553, after the foundation of a new facade by Tommaso Rangone , the entire church, which had proven to be dilapidated when construction began on the facade, was completely redesigned according to Sansovino's plans. Sansovino, who was supported by Alessandro Vittoria and who completed the building after Sansovino's death, designed a simple hall with an adjoining presbytery.
architecture
The facade is divided into two floors and three sections and ends with a triangular gable. The risalit in the basement also forms a triumphal arch for the monument to the founder above the portal. The interior forms a cube-shaped hall with a choir chapel and three chapels on one side. Except for the presbytery, the room remains undivided. It is illuminated by the large thermal window in the presbytery.
Furnishing
Large-format paintings by painters of the 16th and 17th centuries hang on the walls of the church. The main image in the carved and gilded ceiling shows the triumph of the church's patron, St. Julian of Palma Giovane . It is accompanied by four smaller images with the four cardinal virtues .
The architecturally elaborate side altars contain altarpieces by Paolo Veronese ( the dead Christ is carried to heaven by angels ) and by Palma Giovane ( Assunta ).
The organ was made by Gaetano Callido . It dates from 1764 and is number 12.
The founder
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The founder of the facade was the successful doctor and astrologer Tommaso Rangone from Ravenna , who initially wanted to immortalize himself on the front of San Geminiano , opposite St. Mark's Square (and demolished under Napoleon ), but this was rejected by the city's senate.
Thereupon he donated a new facade for the church of San Zulian in the Merceria, which was in need of renovation . Now he is enthroned as a life-size (formerly gilded) bronze figure in his study above a simple stone sarcophagus , surrounded by the props of a humanistic scholar, earth and celestial globe , books and lectern. In his right hand he holds two plants, namely a windlass ( sarsaparilla ) and a guaiac plant ( Guaiacum officinale ), which he used to treat syphilis and yellow fever .
Inscription panels in Greek and Hebrew praise the founder.
opening hours
daily 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
in winter 5 p.m.
literature
- Alethea Wiel: Works of Art Discovered in Venice , in: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (1909) 15 (78).
- Reclam's art guide Italy . Edited by Manfred Wundram. Vol. 2: Northern Italy East . Stuttgart 1965. pp. 387-890.
- Church guide Venice. Herbert Rosendorfer, Edition Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-361-00618-8
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Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 8 ″ N , 12 ° 20 ′ 19 ″ E