Santa Maria della Salute (front)
A Google streetview from the front with a Google Earth satellite image, put together with PicFrame on an iPad Air.
Here are four paragraphs about the church from Wikipedia:
"Santa Maria della Salute (English: Saint Mary of Health), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy.
"It stands on the narrow finger of Punta della Dogana, between the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal, at the Bacino di San Marco, making the church visible when entering the Piazza San Marco from the water. The Salute is part of the parish of the Gesuati and is the most recent of the so-called plague churches.
"In 1630, Venice experienced an unusually devastating outbreak of the plague. As a votive offering for the city’s deliverance from the pestilence, the Republic of Venice vowed to build and dedicate a church to Our Lady of Health (or of Deliverance, Italian: Salute). The church was designed in the then fashionable baroque style by Baldassare Longhena, who studied under the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi. Construction began in 1631. Most of the objects of art housed in the church bear references to the Black Death.
"The dome of the Salute was an important addition to the Venice skyline and soon became emblematic of the city, inspiring artists like Canaletto, J. M. W. Turner, John Singer Sargent, and the Venetian artist Francesco Guardi."
In Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti mysteries, which got me interested in Venice, it is often mentioned how the city's old buildings, especially churchs, have scaffolding for many years as they undergo perpetual repairs. Apparently the slow pace of work on Venice's buildings has been going on for centuries. The building of Salute took 56 years before it was ready for consecration in 1687.
Santa Maria della Salute (front)
A Google streetview from the front with a Google Earth satellite image, put together with PicFrame on an iPad Air.
Here are four paragraphs about the church from Wikipedia:
"Santa Maria della Salute (English: Saint Mary of Health), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy.
"It stands on the narrow finger of Punta della Dogana, between the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal, at the Bacino di San Marco, making the church visible when entering the Piazza San Marco from the water. The Salute is part of the parish of the Gesuati and is the most recent of the so-called plague churches.
"In 1630, Venice experienced an unusually devastating outbreak of the plague. As a votive offering for the city’s deliverance from the pestilence, the Republic of Venice vowed to build and dedicate a church to Our Lady of Health (or of Deliverance, Italian: Salute). The church was designed in the then fashionable baroque style by Baldassare Longhena, who studied under the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi. Construction began in 1631. Most of the objects of art housed in the church bear references to the Black Death.
"The dome of the Salute was an important addition to the Venice skyline and soon became emblematic of the city, inspiring artists like Canaletto, J. M. W. Turner, John Singer Sargent, and the Venetian artist Francesco Guardi."
In Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti mysteries, which got me interested in Venice, it is often mentioned how the city's old buildings, especially churchs, have scaffolding for many years as they undergo perpetual repairs. Apparently the slow pace of work on Venice's buildings has been going on for centuries. The building of Salute took 56 years before it was ready for consecration in 1687.