The Chiesa di San Salvatore (of the Holy Savior) is a church in

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, northern

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. Known in Venetian as San Salvador, is located on the Campo San Salvador, along the Merceria, the main shopping street of Venice. The church was first consecrated in 1177 by Pope Alexander III shortly after his reconciliation with Emperor Frederick Barbarossa at nearby

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. The present church, however, was begun in around 1508 by

Giorgio Spavento Giorgio Spavento (died 17 April 1509) was an Italian Renaissance architect and engineer, active in Venice. Probably native to the area of Lake Como, he is first recorded in 1486 when he was appointed as ''proto'' (consultant architect and build ...

and continued after his death the following year by

Tullio Lombardo Tullio Lombardo (c. 1455 – November 17, 1532), also known as Tullio Solari, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor. He was the brother of Antonio Lombardo and son of Pietro Lombardo. The Lombardo family worked together to sculpt famous Catholic ...

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and possibly Jacopo Sansovino. They built a large hall church, formed from three

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es placed end to end. Each has a dome with a lantern to let light into the cavernous interior. The facade was added in 1663 by

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. Adjoining the church is the former

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, now the offices of the telephone company, which still contain Sansovino's magnificent

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s. San Salvador is the parish church of a parish in the Vicariate of San Marco-Castello. Other churches in the parish are San Bartolomeo and

San Zulian The Chiesa di San Giuliano (Julian the Hospitaller, St Julian), commonly called San Zulian in the Venetian dialect, is a church in Venice. San Zulian is in the parish of Chiesa di San Salvador, San Salvador. It is situated on the Merceria, the mai ...

. San Salvador is a small, but still-active religious, cultural and social centre.web site
Below the left column on the facade there is a cannonball embedded in the base of the column. It derived from a bombardment in 1849 by Austrian forces in the port of

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, of the independent republic which had been proclaimed by

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. File:San Salvador Interno.jpg, Inside File:San Savador pavimenti.jpg, Polychrome marble mosaic File:San Salvador Interno - altare e pala d'altare.jpg, Altarpiece and main altar

Works of art

* Jacopo Sansovino (tomb of

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on the south wall). *

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(''

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'' on the south wall and ''Transfiguration'', the altarpiece of the high altar). *

Francesco Vecellio Francesco Vecellio (about 1475 – 1560) was a Venetian painter of the Italian Renaissance. He was the elder brother and close collaborator of the painter Tiziano Vecellio ("Titian"). Vecellio was born in Pieve di Cadore, in the Republic of V ...

(paintings on organ doors; frescoes in tomb in floor in front of high altar). *

Alessandro Vittoria Alessandro Vittoria funerary monument - San Zaccaria, Venice Alessandro Vittoria (1525–1608) was an Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school, "one of the main representatives of the Venetian classical style" and rivalling Giamb ...

(altar on north wall, with statues of St. Roch and St. Sebastian). *

Giulio Angolo del Moro Giulio Angolo del Moro, (commonly called Angeli), the brother of Battista, was a sculptor, architect, and painter. He was a native of Verona, but laboured chiefly at Venice, and in the churches and the Doge's Palace The Doge's Palace ( it, P ...

Savior in Monument of Andrea Dolfin. File:San Salvatore Francesco Venier's monument.jpg, Francesco Venier's monument File:San Salvador Interno - Annunciazione del Signore Tiziano.jpg,

(''

'' File:San Salvador Interno -Organo.jpg, Organ File:San Salvador Interno - Vista interna della portella destra di Francesco Vecellio.jpg, ''Resurrection'' by Francesco Vecellio File:San Salvador Interno - Vista interna della portella sinistra di Francesco Vecellio.jpg, ''Transfiguration'' by Francesco Vecellio File:San Salvador Venezia - San Rocco - Alessandro Vittoria.jpg, St. Roch by

File:San Salvador Venezia - San Sebastiano - Alessandro Vittoria.jpg, St. Sebastian by

File:San Salvador Interno - Monumento al procuratore Andrea Dolfin - Il Salvatore by Giulio del Moro.jpg, ''Savior'' by Giulio del Moro

Funerary monuments

* Caterina Cornaro (d.1510) (Queen of

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). * Andrea Dolfin *

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Gerolamo Priuli * Doge Lorenzo Priuli * Doge

(d.1556).

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Church of San Salvador
{{DEFAULTSORT:Salvador, San Buildings and structures completed in 1177 1177 establishments in Europe 12th-century establishments in the Republic of Venice Salvador 17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy