San Pietro Martire ( en, St. Peter Martyr) is a

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church in

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, near

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, northern

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History

The church was edificated in 1348 along with a Dominican convent, and was originally dedicated to St. John the Baptist. In 1474 a fire razed it to the ground and in 1511 it was rebuilt to the current appearance. It was closed on 1806, a few years after the

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, and reopened in 1813. It is currently one of the two main parish churches in the island of Murano.

Description

Chiesa di San Pietro Martire External Wall

The façade is in naked brickwork, divided in three sections and with a 16th-century portal, which is surmounted by a large

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. On the left façade is a portico with Renaissance arcades and columns, perhaps what remains of the original cloister. On the same side is the

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, dating to 1498-1502. The interior is on the

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, with three naves divided by two series of large columns, and a wooden ceiling. The presbytery is quite large, with

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s and two small side chapels. Aside from the

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, there other minor altars, three for each nave. Artworks in the church include a ''Baptism of Christ'' attributed to

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 ...

, in the right nave, which also houses two works by Giovanni Bellini: an ''Assumption with Saints'' (1510–1513) and the Barbarigo Altarpiece (1488), taken from the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli.

Palma il Giovane Iacopo Negretti (1548/50 – 14 October 1628), best known as Jacopo or Giacomo Palma il Giovane or simply Palma Giovane ("Young Palma"), was an Italian painter from Venice and a notable exponent of the Venetian school. After Tintoretto's death ...

's ''San Nicòlo, Santa Lucia, San Carlo Borromeo'' also features on the right wall. In the right wing is the Ballarin Chapel, built in 1506 after the death of the eponymous glassmaker from Murano. Other paintings include a ''St. Jerome in the Desert'' by

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...

(also from Santa Maria degli Angeli), the ''Barcaioli Altarpiece'' by Giovanni Agostino da Lodi (c. 1500), a ''Deposition from the Cross'' by

Giuseppe Porta Giuseppe Porta (1520–1575), also known as Giuseppe Salviati, was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, active mostly in Venice. Biography Caterina d’Alessandria con i Santi Gerolamo, Giovanni Battista, Giacomo Apostolo San Fr ...

, a 1495 ''Ecce Homo'' (perhaps from the destroyed church of Santo Stefano in Murano).

Sources

External links

San Pietro Martire - Murano - 1511
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