San Marziale is a church building in the '' sestiere'' or neighborhood of

Cannaregio Cannaregio () is the northernmost of the six historic ''sestieri'' (districts) of Venice. It is the second largest ''sestiere'' by land area and the largest by population, with 13,169 people . Isola di San Michele, the historic cemetery island, ...

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

. The church dates to 1133. The present church was rebuilt in 1693–1714 at the commission of

Pietro Barbarigo Pietro is an Italian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: People * Pietro I Candiano (c. 842–887), briefly the 16th Doge of Venice * Pietro Tribuno (died 912), 17th Doge of Venice, from 887 to his death * Pietro II C ...

, and reconsecrated in 1721. It contains works by

Antonio Vassilacchi Antonio Vassilacchi (; el, Αντώνιος Βασιλάκης, Antonios Vasilakis; 1556–1629), also called L'Aliense, was a Greek painter, who was active mostly in Venice and the Veneto. Biography Antonio Vassilacchi was born of Greek descent ...

(L'Aliense) (''Resurrection''),

Domenico Cresti Domenico Passignano (1559 – 17 May 1638), born Domenico Cresti or Crespi, was an Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Counter-''Maniera'' ( Counter-Mannerism) style that emerged in Florence towards the end of the 16th century. Biography ...

(''il Passignano''),

Tintoretto Tintoretto ( , , ; born Jacopo Robusti; late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594) was an Italian painter identified with the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed with ...

(one of the altar pieces ''Saint Martial in Glory with Saints Peter and Paul''), and

Giulia Lama Giulia Lama (1 October 1681 – 7 October 1747) was an Italian painter, active in Venice. Her dark, tense style contrasted with the dominant pastel colors of the late Baroque era. Biography Lama was born in the parish of Santa Maria Formosa in ...

(four paintings including two of the Evangelists ''St Matthew'' and ''St Mark'').. The Scuola del Santissimo Sacramento commissioned the altar (1691-1704) in the chancel attributed to Tommaso Rues. He also sculpted the elaborate marble main altar, depicting ''Christ Ruler of World with Saints and Angels'' is dedicated to the ''Blessed Virgin of the Graces''. The icon is a copy of the original image supposedly sculpted in Rimini in 1286 by a shepherd named Rustico and miraculously brought to Venice. The ceiling frescoes are by

Sebastiano Ricci Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 165915 May 1734) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesqu ...

and depict ''The arrival of the icon of the Madonna in Venice'', ''Apotheosis of Saint Marziale'', ''Rustico observing angels sculpt the statue of the Madonna'', and finally ''God the Father in Glory''. It once contained a

Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italians, Italian (Republic of Venice, Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school (art), ...

painting of ''Tobias and the Angel'', which is now in

Madonna dell'Orto The Madonna dell'Orto is a church in Venice, Italy, in the ''sestiere'' of Cannaregio. History The church was erected by the now-defunct religious order the "Humiliati" in the mid-14th century, under the direction of Tiberio da Parma, who is bu ...

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