Santa Maria Assunta (Venice, Cannaregio)
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Santa Maria Assunta ( Assumption of the Virgin ) is a Roman Catholic church in the Cannaregio , Campo dei Gesuiti district of Venice and is known for its characteristic marble cladding. It is located immediately south of the vaporetto stop at Fondamenta Nuove. Today the church is popularly called "Gesuiti". A church of the same name can still be found on the island of Torcello, which belongs to Venice .
history
The church was built around 1150 for the crusader order of S. Maria dei Crociferi (cross-bearer) and was built from 1715 to 1729 by Domenico Rossi , house architect of the Manin family who financed it , for the Jesuits in the baroque style in the tradition of the type of Jesuit church developed in Rome . The Jesuits acquired the monastic land on March 2, 1657 from the Republic of Venice. So ended the exile of the Jesuits who had stood on the Pope's side in the dispute between the Republic of Venice and Pope Paul V over the ban on church property acquisition. The convention was abolished under Napoleon.
Church building
The church is a hall building with barrel vaults and deep side chapels. The high baroque, west-facing Roman two-storey facade is structured with Corinthian columns and a protruding middle section and decorated with statues of the twelve apostles , which are incorporated in niches in the lower row. On the top of the gable, the Assumption of Mary is depicted between angels. The first north side chapel contains the martyrdom of St. Laurentius von Titian , created in 1558. Opposite is the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (1555) by Tintoretto . On the inside of the facade, the tomb of Priamo, Giovanni and Andrea da Lezze from the 16th century has been rearranged. The frescoes on the predominantly golden stucco ceiling are by Louis Dorigny and Francesco Fontebasso . Giuseppe Pozzo, brother of the famous Andrea Pozzo , created the altar with ten twisted columns, which are modeled on the altar ciborium of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The walls are clad with a precious and virtuoso pietra dura decoration made of green and white marble, which is reminiscent of baroque patterned damask wallpaper and is not only unusual in its kind, but downright unique. The floor is also made of different colored marble. The former convent building connects to the south.
literature
- Ennio Concina, Piero Codato, Vittorio Pavan: Churches in Venice. Hirmer, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7774-7010-4 , pages 362-369
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Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 35.3 ″ N , 12 ° 20 ′ 19.5 ″ E