CHURCH OF REDENTORE - Sestiere of Dorsoduro, Giudecca, XVI sec. -

Between the 1575 and the 1577 plague killed almost fifthy thousands people in Venice; the fourth of September 1576 Serenissima's senate decided to build a church dedicated to the Redeemer and the first stone was laid the third of May 1577. This church dominates the Giudecca's view and results to be a Palladio's thought about the entire classical architecture of the Renaissance, the attempt of join the Cristian Church with all the elements of a classical temple. A classical pediment dominates the facade and a stair, as wide as the dome's diameter (that is the unit of the entire building) symbolizes through its fifteen steps the ascent to the Jerusalem's temple.
Interior, having a longitudinal plan, is perfect to be used for processions: a main nave with deep lateral chapels, covered with a barreil vault and lightened by windows; a wide presbitery joined to the nave through a big arch and finally a rectangular choir. Dedicated to the events of Jesus's life are the paintings kept in the chapels: a Natività di Gesù Cristo and La Resurrezione by Francesco da Ponte are in the first altar on the right handside and on the second altar on the left handside. Trasporto di Cristo al Sepolcro by Jacopo Palma il Giovane kept on the third altar on the left handside is a work dates back to 1600. Two paintings by Domenico Tintoretto (1588) with the Flagellazione di Cristo and L'ascensione di Cristo, but maybe, the most suggestive work is Madonna con Bambino e due angeli musicanti by Alvise Vivarini, kept as a jewel in a really precious wood's frame. This work, painted in the 1500 belongs to the last phase of the painter's activity, when he had already received the influences by Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini.

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