San Trovaso
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San Trovaso is a church in Venice on the Campo of the same name ( Campo San Trovaso ) in the Dorsoduro sestiere .
The church is consecrated to the two early Christian saints Gervasius and Protasius , whose names were drawn together to Trovaso in a manner typical for Venice .
architecture
The previous building of the church from the 11th century was rebuilt after it was destroyed by fire in 1590 according to plans that were wrongly attributed to Andrea Palladio . The building consists of a short nave with a spacious transept - both with barrel vaults -, adjoining chapels and an equally spacious presbytery .
The church is characterized by two almost identical facades, one facing the Campo, the second facing the Rio San Trovaso of the same name . The basement floors are each structured by Corinthian pilasters , volutes create the connection to the narrower upper floors, which are opened through large thermal bath windows . Flat triangular gables complete the facades. The representative portals, marked by an aedicula with a triangular gable, are accompanied by two arched windows on the square side, and by two slightly lower rectangular windows on the canal side.
According to local tradition, the two separate church entrances should avoid a meeting of members of the warring families Castellani and Nicoletti at the church portal.
Furnishing
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In addition to a picture of the Madonna by Giovanni Bellini on the right side of the nave, the church contains various important examples of Venetian painting from the 16th century. In a chapel on the right side of the presbytery hangs a panel painting by the Venetian Michele Giambono , St. Chrysogonos on horseback. The paintings on the side walls in the presbytery are works from the Tintoretto workshop and depict the adoration of the kings and Joachim's eviction from the temple . In 1566, Tintoretto himself created the unusually moving and dramatic depiction of the Lord's Supper in the transept, as well as the temptation of the Holy Abbot Anthony in a side chapel of the presbytery, a donation from Antonio Milledonne, Secretary of the Venetian Senate from 1577. Rosalba Carriera's hand is the Madonna in the sacristy of the church.
literature
- Manfred Wundram (ed.): Reclam's art guide Italy . Volume 2: Northern Italy East . Stuttgart 1965, pp. 944-945.
- Herbert Rosendorfer: Church leaders Venice . Edition Leipzig, 2008, ISBN 978-3-361-00618-8
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Coordinates: 45 ° 25 ′ 50.88 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 33.6 ″ E