San Marcuola

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San Marcuola on the Grand Canal in Venice

San Marcuola is a church dedicated to Saint Hermagoras and Fortunatus in Venice in the Cannaregio sestiere . The church is located on the Grand Canal opposite the Fontego dei Turchi and the Fontego del Megio .

history

The rare patronage of Ermagora e Fortunato ( corrupted by the Venetians beyond recognition in Marcuola) indicates a much older predecessor church and the connection with Aquileja . Thanks to a foundation from the Memmo family, a Romanesque predecessor building was erected on this site as early as the 12th century. 1663 worked Antonio Gaspari plans in favor of a restructuring of the church. Until Gaspari's death in 1730 , his plans were not implemented. Then Giorgio Massari was entrusted with the construction, who completed the renovation of the interior as early as 1736 . The facade, however, has remained unfinished to this day, probably for lack of money.

description

Last Supper (San Marcuola, Venice, 1547) - Jacopo Tintoretto

Originally there was a three-aisled Romanesque church with a campanile next to the apse. After the new building by Massari, we see a single-nave square church room with a barrel vault. The main altar is located in the rectangular presbytery , which has an oval dome supported by four columns. The eight side altars stand in pairs in the four corners of the church. These altars are adorned with high quality sculptures ( John the Baptist , Antonius of Padua , Peter , Kajetan von Thiene , Antonius the Great ). Attributing the characters to Giovanni Maria Morlaiter is controversial. Ress contradicts this attribution, which probably goes back to Giulio Lorenzetti, but who does not give any sources for it. The most important work of art in the church, however, is Jacopo Tintoretto's “Last Supper” , which was a copy until 1935.

The composer Johann Adolf Hasse found his final resting place here in 1783.

swell

  • Church guide Venice : Herbert Rosendorfer, Edition Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-361-00618-8
  • Translation of the article in the Italian Wikipedia Chiesa di San Marcuola

Web links

Commons : San Marcuola  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Ress, Giovanni Maria Morlaiter. An 18th century Venetian sculptor. German Study Center Venice, Studies 2, Munich 1979. Note 82, p. 77.
  2. ^ Giulio Lorenzetti, Venezia e il suo estuario, Venezia 1926, p. 403.

Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 34.4 "  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 43.2"  E