Exterior from the Canale della Giudecca

Interior

Il Redentore, more properly Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore (Church of the Most Holy Redeemer), is Andrea Palladio's great domed church on Giudecca, one of the islands of Venice. Located on the waterfront of the Canale della Giudecca, it dominates the skyline of the island. Il Redentore, Venice. ... Il Redentore, Venice. ... Download high resolution version (480x640, 57 KB)Interior of Il Redentore, Venice. ... Download high resolution version (480x640, 57 KB)Interior of Il Redentore, Venice. ... Illustration from a 1736 English edition of I Quattro Libri dellArchitettura. ... The Giudecca is an island in the Venetian Lagoon lying immediately south of the central islands, from which it is separated by the Giudecca Canal. ... Location within Italy Venice is known for its waterways and gondolas Venice (Italian Venezia), the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto, population 271,663 (census estimate 2004-01-01). ...

The Redentore was built in thanksgiving for deliverance from the plague that decimated Venice from 1575 to 1576, in which some 46,000 people, 25-30 per cent of the population, died. The Senate commissioned the great architect Palladio to design it and it was built between 1577 and 1592. Every year, the doge and senators walked across a specially constructed pontoon bridge from the Zattere to Giudecca and attended Mass in the church. The Festa del Redentore remains a major festival in the Venetian calendar, celebrated on the third Sunday in July. A huge firework display on the previous evening is followed by a mass procession across the pontoon bridge. The church has always been entrusted to the Capuchins, the youngest branch of the Franciscans, and about twenty now live in the attached monastery. Plague redirects here. ... Events February 13 - Henry III of France is crowned at Reims February 14 - Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont August 5 - Henry Sidney is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. ... Events May 5 - Peace of Beaulieu or Peace of Monsieur (after Monsieur, the Duc dAnjou, brother of the King, who negotiated it). ... A senate is a deliberative body, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature. ... Illustration from a 1736 English edition of I Quattro Libri dellArchitettura. ... Events March 17 - formation of the Cathay Company to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold September 17 - Peace of Bergerac signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots The church in San Pedro in the Atacama Desert in Chile was built. ... Events January 30 - The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. ... The chief office in the historical city states of Venice and Genoa was the Doge (from the Latin dux--leader). ... A pontoon bridge Pontoon bridges are floating bridges supported by floating pontoons with sufficient buoyancy to support the bridge and dynamic loads. ... The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin is an order of friars in the Roman Catholic Church, the chief and only permanent offshoot from the Franciscans. ... The Order of Friars Minor (commonly called the Franciscans) is a mendicant religious order of men tracing their origin to Francis of Assisi and following the Rule of St. ... Buddhist monastery near Tibet A monastery is the habitation of monks. ...

The Redentore, in the most prominent site of any of Palladio's structures, is considered one of the pinnacles of his career. It is a large, white building with a dome crowned by a statue of the Redeemer. The white stucco and gray stone interior combines a long nave with a domed crossing, in spaces that are clearly articulated yet unified. It contains paintings by Francesco Bassano, Lazzaro Bastiani, Carlo Saraceni, Leandro Bassano, Palma Giovane, Jacopo da Bassano, Francesco Bissolo, Rocco Marconi, Paolo Veronese, Alvise Vivarini and the workshop of Tintoretto. The sacristy also contains a series of wax heads of Franciscans made in 1710. Two Italian painters, grandfather and grandson, are named Francesco Bassano: Francesco Bassano the Elder (c. ... Carlo Saraceni (c. ... The Battle of Lepanto by Paolo Veronese Veronese is the name usually used to refer to painter Paolo Veronese; alternatively it means someone or something from Verona, Italy. ... Alvise or Luigi Vivarini, (c. ... Detail of a self-portrait Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Robusti; 1518 - May 31, 1594) was an Italian painter from Venice. ... A sacristy is a room for keeping vestments (such as the cassock and chasuble) and other church furnishings, sacred vessels and church treasures. ... Events April 10 - The worlds first copyright legislation became effective, Britains Statute of Anne Ongoing events Great Northern War (1700-1721) War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713) Births January 4 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (d. ...

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