San Fantin (short for San Fantino) is a church in the sestiere of San Marco in

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, Italy. It stands in front of the Fenice Theater and adjacent to the

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(the former Scuola grande di San Fantin). This parish church was first erected in the 10th century under the patronage of the patrician families from

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, Aldicina, and Equilia. Reconstruction was undertaken by the Pisani family, who installed in the church a miraculous icon of the Virgin they had obtained from the East. The church of San Fantin by the 15th century came to be called the church of ''Santa Maria delle Grazie di San Fantino''. Ten thousand ducats were willed for the church's reconstruction by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Zeno who died in 1501. A number of relics were transferred to this church including the body of Saint Marcellina and an armbone of the martyred Saint Trifone, Protector of

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. Work on the church has been assigned or attributed to many architects, from

Pietro Lombardo Monument of the Doge Pietro Mocenigo 1481 :''Pietro Lombardo is also the Italian version of the name of the theologian Peter Lombard.'' Pietro Lombardo (1435–1515) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect; born in Carona (Ticino), he ...

, Sebastiano Mariani, and later

Jacopo Sansovino Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (2 July 1486 – 27 November 1570) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect, best known for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. These are crucial works in the history of Venetian Renaissance archi ...

. Over the door of the sacristy is conserved the funeral urn of Vinciguerra

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, a work by

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. In 1908, the church was documented to hold two

Piazzetta Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was an Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes. Biography Piazzetta was ...

paintings: ''Liberation of Venice from the Plague'' and a ''Pieta''. It had a ''Holy Family'' attributed to

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, a ''Crucifixion'' by Lionardo Corona, and a ''Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth'' by

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.A guide to the paintings of Venice: being an historical and critical account ... By Frank Tryon Charles (1908) page 172 These works have been relocated elsewhere. (Venice) Church of San Fantin - interior.jpg, Interior view San Fantin (Venice) miraculous icon of the Virgin.jpg, Miraculous icon of the Virgin San Fantin (Venice) Organ.jpg, The organ above the porch San Fantin (Venice) - Campanile a vela.jpg, Bell gable

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