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CHURCH
OF SAN STEFANO -
Sestiere
of San Marco, XIV sec. -
Santo
Stefano's church is one of the best Venetian example of flowered Gothic.
Facade unfortunately
is on a walking area that doesn't allow to admire the main door, a masterpiece
by Bartolomeo Bon.
Church was finished in the 1374 and internally has the typical architecture
of fourteenth century's churches: three wide and long naves separated
with columns with coloured capitals; pointed arches make slender the structure
and increase the magnificence of the building.
Santo Stefano has an absolute importance for Renaissance sculptures: on
the right handside a marble urn and the Busto del senatore Antonio
Zorzi, by Alessandro Vittoria; then many female imagines made in the
Lombardo's shop. Altars keep high quality works of Venetian paintings
from fifteenth to eighteenth century: L'orazione nell'orto by Jacopo
Tintoretto (sacristy), a Battesimo by Paris Bordon, La Vergine
col putto by Palma il Vecchio, L'immacolata Concezione by Jacopo
Marieschi.
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of interest to visit
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