 Exterior from the Grand Canal |
 Interior facing towards the high altar | The Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute (Basilica of St Mary of Health/Salvation), commonly known simply as the Salute, is one of the largest churches of Venice and has the status of a minor basilica. It stands at the junction between the Grand Canal and the Bacino di San Marco on the lagoon. Download high resolution version (480x640, 61 KB)Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, from the Grand Canal. ...
Download high resolution version (480x640, 61 KB)Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, from the Grand Canal. ...
Interior of the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, facing the high altar. ...
Interior of the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, facing the high altar. ...
View of Venice to San Giorgio Maggiore island from St Marks Campanile. ...
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The Grand Canal in Venice, Italy The Grand Canal (italian: Canal Grande) is Venices largest waterway. ...
The Venetian Lagoon The Venetian Lagoon or the Venetian Riviera is a lagoon off the Adriatic Sea in which the city of Venice is situated. ...
In October 1630, the Senate decreed that if the city was delivered from the currently raging plague that had killed about a third of Venice's population, then a new church would be built and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Baldassare Longhena, then only 26 years old, was selected to design the new church. It was finally completed in 1681, the year before Longhena's death. Events February 22 - Native American Quadequine introduces Popcorn to English colonists. ...
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The Italian Plague of 1629-1631 was a series of outbreaks of bubonic plague from 1629 through 1631 in northern Italy. ...
Blessed Virgin Mary A traditional Catholic picture sometimes displayed in homes. ...
Baldassarre Longhena (Venice, 1598 – Venice, 1682), was a 17th century Venetian architect, who worked mainly in Venice itself, where he was one of the greatest exponents of Baroque architecture of the period. ...
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Every year, on 21 November, the Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin, the city's officials processed from San Marco to the Salute for a service of thanksgiving for deliverance from the plague. This involved crossing the Grand Canal on a specially constructed pontoon bridge. The Festa della Madonna della Salute is still a major event in Venice. November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
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. ...
Pontoon bridge across the James River at Richmond, Virginia, 1865. ...
The Salute is a vast, octagonal building built on a platform made of 100,000 wooden piles. It is constructed of Istrian stone and marmorino (brick covered with marble dust). It is full of Marian symbolism - the great dome represents her crown, the cavernous interior her womb, the eight sides the eight points on her symbolic star.
The Salute is part of the parish of the Gesuati.
Works of art The altarpiece of the Baroque high altar, designed by Longhena himself, is a Byzantine Madonna and Child of the 12th or 13th century. Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens. ...
The most famous of the surviving Byzantine mosaics of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople - the image of Christ on the walls of the upper southern gallery. ...
(11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ...
(12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ...
Tintoretto contributed Marriage at Cana in the great sacristy, which includes a self-portrait. Detail of a self-portrait Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Robusti; 1518 - May 31, 1594) was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of Italian Renaissance. ...
The most represented artist is Titian, who painted St Mark enthroned with SS Cosmas, Damian, Sebastian and Roch, the altarpiece of the great sacristy, as well as ceiling paintings of David and Goliath, Abraham and Isaac and Cain and Abel, and eight tondi of the Doctors of the Church and the Evangelists, all in the great sacristy, and Pentecost in the nave. Titians self-portrait, 1566. ...
Gallery View of the Basilica from the Grand Canal Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1756x1144, 3201 KB) Description View to Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute from Grand Canal of Venice. ...
| View of the Basilica from St Mark's Campanile Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1756x1144, 2582 KB) Description View to Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute from St Marks Campanile in Venice. ...
The Campanile from the west St Marks Campanile is the bell tower of St Marks Square in Venice. ...
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