Luogo - Religious building

Chiesa di Santa Maria Formosa

Where Campo S.m. Formosa, 6125, Venezia

St. Mary Formosa's Church is situated in the Castle district, overlooking the field of the same name, one of the largest of Venice. According to tradition, it was built in 639 by St. Magnus of Oderzo, to whom the Virgin had appeared. The Church was renewed in 864, and, after a fire in 1106. The old scheme of a Greek cross was maintained until the fifteenth century. Codussi there then planted the Latin three-nave scheme, with the presbytery, semicircular apses and large chapels in the aisles. Inside, it was returned to the theme of the Brunelleschi architectural in gray stone that stand out on the white plaster. The Cappello family, in 1542, financed the construction of both sides: the first, which gives the river, is in Classic style; the second, in the field, is Baroque. The Bell Tower is in Baroque style (1688), a project by Francesco Zucconi. Inside, there are works of great importance: the "Triptych of Mercy" by Bartolomeo Vivarini (1473), placed in the first chapel on the right; paintings "St. Barbara and four Saints", by Jacopo Negretti, known as Palma the Older (1523); "Madonna in piety and St. Francis of Assisi" (1604), by Jacopo Palma the Younger, and on the first floor of the Oratory, a "Madonna with Child and Saint Dominic", by Giambattista Tiepolo (1760).

 
 
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