Loggetta del Sansovino
San Marco campanile and Loggetta del Sansovino (1537-46).
Loggetta del Sansovino was built by Jacopo Sansovino between 1537 and 1549 in the High Renaissance style. It served at various times as a gathering place for nobles and for meetings of the procurators of Saint Mark, the Venetian officials responsible principally for the administration of the treasury of Saint Mark's Basilica and for the public buildings around Saint Mark's Square. The loggetta was also used from 1569 onward as a sentry post to provide security for the assembled nobles during the meetings of the Great Council.
The loggetta was largely destroyed in the collapse of the bell tower in 1902, but it was rebuilt using what original material could be salvaged, amounting to about half of the present building. At the same time the sides, which had originally been left in plain brick as other lean-to structures backed onto them, were rebuilt in the style of the main facade.
Venice. 2014
Loggetta del Sansovino
San Marco campanile and Loggetta del Sansovino (1537-46).
Loggetta del Sansovino was built by Jacopo Sansovino between 1537 and 1549 in the High Renaissance style. It served at various times as a gathering place for nobles and for meetings of the procurators of Saint Mark, the Venetian officials responsible principally for the administration of the treasury of Saint Mark's Basilica and for the public buildings around Saint Mark's Square. The loggetta was also used from 1569 onward as a sentry post to provide security for the assembled nobles during the meetings of the Great Council.
The loggetta was largely destroyed in the collapse of the bell tower in 1902, but it was rebuilt using what original material could be salvaged, amounting to about half of the present building. At the same time the sides, which had originally been left in plain brick as other lean-to structures backed onto them, were rebuilt in the style of the main facade.
Venice. 2014