West front.

High altar showing Titian altarpiece.

The Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, usually just called the Frari, is one of the greatest churches of Venice and has the status of a minor minor basilica. It stands on the Campo dei Frari at the heart of the San Polo district of the city. The church is dedicated to the Assumption (Assunzione della Beata Virgine). Download high resolution version (480x640, 59 KB)Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice. ... Download high resolution version (480x640, 59 KB)Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice. ... Download high resolution version (480x640, 64 KB)High altar of Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, showing the altarpiece by Titian. ... Download high resolution version (480x640, 64 KB)High altar of Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, showing the altarpiece by Titian. ... Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venezsia) is the capital of region Veneto, and has a population of 271,663 (census estimate January 1, 2004). ... The Basilica of St. ... San Polo is the smallest of the six sestieri of Venice, covering just 86 acres (350,000 m²) along the Grand Canal. ... The Assumption has been a subject of Christian art for centuries. ...

The Franciscans were granted land to build a church in 1250, but the building was not completed until 1338. Work almost immediately began on its much larger replacement, the current church, which took over a century to build. The campanile, the second tallest in the city after that of San Marco, was completed in 1396. Franciscans is the common name used to designate a variety of mendicant religious orders of men or women tracing their origin to Francis of Assisi and following the Rule of St. ... // April 30 - King Louis IX of France released by his Egyptian captors after paying a ransom of one million dinars and turning over the city of Damietta. ... Events Ashikaga Takauji granted title of Shogun by the emperor of Japan. ... A campanile (pronounced []) is, especially in Italy, a free-standing bell tower (Italian campana, bell), often adjacent to a church or cathedral. ... San Marco di Venezia, as seen from the Piazza San Marco St Marks Basilica (Italian: Basilica di San Marco) is the most famous of the churches of Venice and one of the best known examples of Byzantine architecture. ... Events September 25 - Bayazid I defeats Sigismund of Hungary and John of Nevers at the Battle of Nicopolis. ...

The imposing church is built of brick in the Italian Gothic style. As with many Venetian churches, the exterior is rather plain. The interior contains the only rood screen still in place in Venice. An old brick wall in English bond laid with alternating courses of headers and A brick is a block of ceramic material used in masonry construction and sized to be layed with one hand using mortar. ... Interior of Cologne Cathedral Gothic architecture is a style of architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches, which flourished in Europe during the high and late medieval period. ... The rood screen (also choir screen or chancel screen) is a common feature in late medieval church architecture, dividing the chancel from the nave. ...

The Frari is a parish church of the Vicariate of San Polo-Santa Croce-Dorsoduro. The other churches of the parish are San Barnaba, San Ludovico Vescovo, Santa Maria del Soccorso and Santa Margherita.

Works of art

• Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child with SS Nicholas of Bari, Peter, Mark and Benedict, the sacristy altarpiece
• Bartolomeo Bon's workshop, figures of the Virgin and St Francis on the west front
• Antonio and Paolo Bregno, tomb of Doge Francesco Fóscari in the chancel (attributed; may actually be by Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino)
• Lorenzo Bregno
  • tomb of Benedetto Pésaro above the sacristy door
  • tomb of Alvise Pasqualino on the west wall
• Girolamo Campagna, statuettes of St Anthony of Padua and St Agnes on the water stoups in the nave
• Marco Cozzi, choir stalls in ritual choir
• Donatello, figure of St John the Baptist in the first south choir chapel, Donatello's first documented work in Venice
• Tullio Lombardo, tomb of Pietro Bernardo on the west wall (attributed; may actually be by Giovanni Buora)
• Antonio Rizzo, tomb of Doge Niccolò Tron in the chancel
• Jacopo Sansovino, damaged figure of St John the Baptist on the font in the Corner Chapel
• Titian
  • Assumption, the altarpiece of the high altar and the largest altarpiece in Venice
  • Madonna di Ca' Pésaro on the north wall of the nave
• Paolo Veneziano, Doge Francesco Dandolo and His Wife Presented to the Virgin by SS Francis and Elizabeth in the sacristy
• Alessandro Vittoria
  • figure of The Risen Christ on the west front
  • figure of St Jerome on the south wall of the nave
• Alvise Vivarini, St Ambrose and other Saints in the north transept chapel, his last work
• Bartolomeo Vivarini
  • St. Mark Enthroned in the Capella Corner in the north transept
  • Madonna and Child with Saints, altarpiece in the third south choir chapel

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Funerary monuments

• Pietro Bernardo (d.1538) (senator)
• Antonio Canova (only his heart is buried here; the tomb, realised by his disciples, is based on the drawing of Canova himself for an unrealised tomb for Titian)
• Federico Corner
• Doge Francesco Dandolo (in the chapter house)
• Doge Francesco Foscari (d.1457)
• Jacopo Marcello
• Claudio Monteverdi one of the greatest composers of the 17th Century
• Beato Pacifico (founder of the current church)
• Alvise Pasqualino (d.1528) (Procurator of Venice)
• Benedetto Pésaro (d.1503) (general)
• Doge Giovanni Pésaro
• Bishop Jacopo Pésaro (d.1547)
• Paolo Savelli (condottiere) (the first Venetian monument to include an equestrian statue)
• Titian (d. 1576)
• Melchiorre Trevisan (d.1500) (general)
• Doge Niccolò Tron

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External links

• Satellite image from Google Maps
• Wikimapia entry
• Adrian Fletcher's Paradoxplace Venice Pages – I Frari (photos)