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Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice

Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice rather than just read about it. In short: The Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, known in Venetian as San Zanipolo, is a Catholic minor basilica and Dominican conventual church in the Castello sestiere of Venice, Italy. It is one of the largest churches in the city of Venice.

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The Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, known in Venetian as San Zanipolo, is a Catholic minor basilica and Dominican conventual church in the Castello sestiere of Venice, Italy. It is one of the largest churches in the city of Venice. After the 15th century the funeral services of all of Venice's doges were held here, and twenty-five doges are buried in the church.

Description The huge brick edifice was designed in the Italian Gothic style, and consecrated in the 1430. It is the principal Dominican church of Venice, and as such was built to hold large congregations. It is dedicated to John and Paul, not the Biblical Apostles of the same names, but two obscure martyrs of the Early Christian church in Rome, whose names were recorded in the 4th century but whose legend is of a later date. In 1246, Doge Jacopo Tiepolo donated some swampland to the Dominicans after dreaming of a flock of white doves flying over it. The first church was demolished in 1333, when the current church was begun. It was not completed until 1430. The vast interior contains many funerary monuments and paintings, as well as the Madonna della Pace, a miraculous Byzantine image situated in its own chapel in the south aisle, and a foot of Saint Catherine of Siena, the church's chief relic. Santi Giovanni e Paolo is a parish church of the Vicariate of San Marco-Castello. Other churches of the parish are San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti, the Ospedaletto and the Beata Vergine Addolorata. The Renaissance Equestrian Statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni (1483), by Andrea del Verrocchio, is located next to the church. The belltower has 3 bells in D major.

Notable artists Giovanni Bellini (Saint Vincent Ferrer Altarpiece in the south aisle) Bartolomeo Bon (the great west doorway) Cima da Conegliano or Giovanni Martini da Udine (Coronation of the Virgin in the south transept) Lorenzo Gramiccia (Madonna del Rosario in Capella di Trinita) Piero di Niccolò Lamberti and Giovanni di Martino (tomb of Doge Tommaso Mocenigo in the north aisle) Gregorio Lazzarini (sala S. Tommaso) Pietro Lombardo (tombs of Doge Pietro Mocenigo on the west wall and Doges Pasquale Malipiero and Nicolo Marcello in the north aisle; tomb of Alvise Diedo in the south aisle) Tullio Lombardo ( and Alessandro Leopardo?) (Funerary monument of Doge Andrea Vendramin on the north wall of the choir) Lorenzo Lotto (St Antoninus Giving Alms in the south transept) Rocco Marconi (Christ between SS Peter and Andrew in the south transept) Giuseppe Maria Mazza (five large bronze reliefs depicting the miracles of Saint Dominic in the Chapel of San Dominico) Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (St Dominic in Glory on the ceiling of the Capella di San Domenico) Alvise Tagliapietra, reliefs in the Chapel of the Rosary

Veronese (The Assumption, The Annunciation and The Adoration of the Magi on the ceiling of the Capella del Rosario; The Adoration of the Shepherds in the Capella del Rosario). The famous The Feast in the House of Levi, painted for the refectory, is now in the Accademia Gallery. Alessandro Vittoria (St Jerome in the north aisle) Alvise Vivarini (Christ carrying the Cross in the sacristy) Bartolomeo Vivarini (Three Saints in the north aisle)

The Capella del Rosario (Chapel of the Rosary) Built in 1582 to commemorate the victory of Lepanto, contained paintings by Tintoretto, Palma the Younger, Titian (The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr) and Giovanni Bellini, among others, but they were destroyed in a fire in 1867 attributed to anti-Catholic arsonists.

Funerary monuments After the 15th century the funeral services of all of Venice's doges were held in Santi Giovanni e Paolo. Twenty-five doges are buried in the church, including:

Marino Zorzi (d. 1312) and his wife Agnese (d. 1320), unknown location Jacopo Tiepolo (d. 1249) Marino Morosini (d. 1253) Reniero Zeno (d. 1268) Lorenzo Tiepolo (d. 1275) Giovanni Dolfin (d. 1361) Marco Cornaro (d. 1368)

Michele Morosini (d. 1382) Antonio Venier (d. 1400) Michele Steno (d. 1413) Tommaso Mocenigo (d. 1423) Pasquale Malipiero (d. 1462) Nicolo Marcello (d. 1474) Pietro Mocenigo (d. 1476) Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478)

Giovanni Mocenigo (d. 1485) Leonardo Loredan (d. 1521) Alvise I Mocenigo (d. 1577) Sebastiano Venier (d. 1578) Bertuccio Valier (d. 1658) Silvestro Valier (d. 1700)

Other people buried in the church include:

Orazio Baglioni (d. 1617), general Gentile Bellini (d. 1507), artist Giovanni Bellini (d. 1516), artist Gianbattista Bonzi (d. 1508), senator Bartolomeo Bragadin (poet) Marco Antonio Bragadin (d.1571), general, flayed alive by the Turks - the tomb contains only his skin Jacopo Cavalli (d. 1384), general Alvise Diedo, commander-in-chief Marino Faliero (d. 1355), the 55th Doge of Venice, beheaded Marco Giustiniani (d. 1346), sea captain Pompeo Giustiniani (d. 1616), condottiere Palma the Younger (d. 1628), artist

Vettor Pisani (d. 1380), admiral Niccolò Orsini, (d. 1510), commander-in-chief Leonardo da Prato (d.1511), condottiere Alvise Trevisan (d. 1528) Edward Windsor, 3rd Baron Windsor (d. 1574) Vincenzo Benedetti, (d. 1658)

See also Italian Gothic architecture List of doges of Venice Lost artworks Sant'Anastasia (Verona) — similar Dominican church in Verona. High medieval domes List of buildings and structures in Venice List of churches in Venice

References

External links

Official website (in Italian) Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice travel guide from Wikivoyage

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In the classroom: Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 15th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy, Basilica churches in Venice, Buildings and structures completed in 1430, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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