San Vidal

Chiesa di San Vidal (Venice), facade

San Vidal (Venetian for Italian: San Vitale ) is a former church in Venice in the San Marco district , which is now used as a concert hall.

history

The Doge Vitale Falier had the church built in honor of Saint Vitalis of Ravenna towards the end of the 11th century. Largely destroyed by a fire in 1105, the church was rebuilt until the 15th century.

At the end of the 17th century the church was redesigned by the Morosini family in honor of and originally also as the burial place of Doge Francesco Morosini by the architect Antonio Gaspari . The current facade was built in 1734–37 according to plans by the architect Andrea Tirali , who completed the reconstruction of the church. The facade takes up motifs from the facades of San Giorgio and San Francesco della Vigna , both designs by Palladio . To the left and right of the portal are portrait busts of Doge Carlo Contarini (1580–1656) and his wife, from whose legacy the facade was financed.

Furnishing

The saint Vitale on horseback and saint , main altarpiece by Vittore Carpaccio and colleagues

The church has a single nave with a vaulted ceiling . The main altar shows the painting San Vitale on horseback and four saints adoring the Virgin and Child (1514) by Vittore Carpaccio . In the side altars there are paintings by Sebastiano Ricci , Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta from the seventeenth century. Two marble sculptures of the Allegories of Strength and Faith by Antonio Gai flank the main altar and their design is based on works by Antonio Corradini .

Web links

Commons : San Vidal - collection of images, videos and audio files

Chiesa di San Vidal. VeniceInformationen.eu
Church of San Vidal. ChorusVenezia.org, with a list of works of art
San Vidal. ChurchesOfVenice.co.uk (English)

Individual evidence

^ Antonio Manno: Venice. National Geographic Germany, Hamburg 2004, p. 187 .
^ Loredana Olivato: The Architecture of the 18th Century in Venice. In: Giandomenico Romanelli (Ed.): Venice. Art and architecture. Könemann, Cologne 1997, vol. 2, p. 700.
↑ for further works cf. Church of San Vidal. ChorusVenenzia.org, accessed June 11, 2017.
^ Paola Rossi: The Venetian sculpture of the 18th century. In: Giandomenico Romanelli (Ed.): Venice. Art and architecture. Könemann, Cologne 1997, vol. 2, p. 729.

45.43242 12.32952Coordinates: 45 ° 25 ′ 56.7 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 46.3 ″ E

[1] Antonio Manno: Venice. National Geographic Germany, Hamburg 2004, p. 187 .

[2] Loredana Olivato: The Architecture of the 18th Century in Venice. In: Giandomenico Romanelli (Ed.): Venice. Art and architecture. Könemann, Cologne 1997, vol. 2, p. 700.

[3] r further works cf. Church of San Vidal. ChorusVenenzia.org, accessed June 11, 2017.

[4] Paola Rossi: The Venetian sculpture of the 18th century. In: Giandomenico Romanelli (Ed.): Venice. Art and architecture. Könemann, Cologne 1997, vol. 2, p. 729.