CHURCH
OF SANT'ALVISE -
Sestiere
of Canaregio, XV sec.
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Tradition wants this church has
been built in 1388 ordered by Antonia Venier and then consecrated to
San
Luigi,
bishop of Tolosa - whose statue of fiftheenth century camps over the
main door - after the apparition of the bishop in a Venier's dream .
Gothic architecture of the facade seems to give reason to this legendary
story.
This was one of the most loved churches by J. Ruskin who tried to ascribe
to Carpaccio the eight tempera paintings (now kept at Correr Museum).
Moreover this church is important and known for three marvellous paintings
by Tiepolo: two juvenile works (1738-40), La flagellazione and
Cristo incoronato di spine, and a later work (after 1740), La
salita di Cristo al Calvario in wich Tiepolo melted the baroque
theatricalism with the Tintoretto's dramatic style.
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