San Salvador (Venice)
San Salvador is a parish church on the Campo of the same name in the San Marco sestiere in Venice .
Building history
The church dates back to the settlement of the Rialto in the 7th century. According to legend, it was founded in 638 by Magnus von Oderzo . In 1141 a monastery of the Canon Regulars was attached to it, which was damaged by fire in 1167 and the new building was completed at the end of the 12th century. The monastery complex was demolished and rebuilt in the first half of the 16th century.
The church was founded in 1171 by Pope Alexander III. consecrated after his reconciliation with Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa .
The previous Romanesque church from the 12th century was rebuilt several times in the 14th and 15th centuries. In 1508 Antonio Contarini , prior of the monastery and from 1508 Patriarch of Venice , selected the design Giorgio Spaventos, who was chairman of the procurators (proto) of St. Mark's Basilica . After his death, Tullio Lombardo and Vincenzo Scamozzi continued the construction. The new building was carried out while maintaining the ground plan of the cruciform basilica with three semicircular apses and three domes. St. Mark's Basilica served as a model for Giorgio Spavento and Tullio Lombardo.
The facade was built in the middle of the 17th century by Giuseppe Sardi on behalf of the merchant Jacopo Galli. As a model, he chose the facade of the Scuola Grande di San Teodoro, which was also created by him, related to the facade of the Schola San Fantin, presumably by Alessandro Vittoria .
Furnishing
Most of the reliquaries and furnishings date from the 13th and 14th centuries.
In 1206 Enrico Morosini donated the Pala of the main altar made of silver and niello with 27 fields in which the evangelists , saints and Mary with the child as well as the transfiguration of the Lord are depicted.
In 1252 the Doge Marino Morosini donated an apse mosaic .
In 1257 the bones of St. Theodore , the first Byzantine city patron and predecessor of St. Mark , were transferred to the church.
In addition to Titian's Transfiguration , which normally concealed the silver high altar, there is also an Annunciation on the south wall of the church.
In the chapel of the Holy Sacrament in the left apse there is the painting Christ in Emmaus , after a lost original by Giovanni Bellini .
The tombs for Caterina Cornaro and her nephew Cardinal Marco Cornaro were made by Bernardino Contin in the 16th century .
literature
- Ennio Concina: Churches in Venice. Art and history. Text by Ennio Concina. Photographs by Piero Codato. Hirmer, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7774-7010-4 , pp. 268-275
Web links
- Parish website (English / Italian)
Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 12 ″ N , 12 ° 20 ′ 11 ″ E