Santa Maria della Salute (; ), commonly known simply as La Salute (), is a

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and

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located at the

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in the

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of the city of

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, Italy. It stands on the narrow finger of

, between the Grand Canal and the

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, at the Bacino di San Marco, making the church visible when entering the

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from the water. The Salute is part of the

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of the

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and is the most recent of the so-called plague churches. In 1630, Venice experienced an unusually devastating outbreak of the plague. As a

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for the city's deliverance from the pestilence, the

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vowed to build and dedicate a church to

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. The church was designed in the then fashionable

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style by

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, who studied under the architect

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. Construction began in 1631. Most of the objects of art housed in the church bear references to the

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. The

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of the ''Salute'' was an important addition to the Venice

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and soon became emblematic of the city, appearing in artworks both by locals, such as

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and

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, and visitors, such as

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and

John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent (; January 12, 1856 – April 15, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era, Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil ...

History

Beginning in the summer of 1630, a wave of the plague assaulted Venice, and until 1631 killed nearly a third of the population. In the city, 46,000 people died whilst in the lagoons the number was far higher, some 94,000. Repeated displays of the sacrament, as well as prayers and processions to churches dedicated to

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and

San Lorenzo Giustiniani Lawrence Justinian (, 1 July 1381 – 8 January 1456) was a Venetian Catholic priest and bishop who became the first Patriarch of Venice. He is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. Biography Lawrence Justinian was a member of the well-k ...

had failed to stem the epidemic. Echoing the architectural response to a prior assault of the plague (1575–76), when

Palladio Andrea Palladio ( , ; ; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one ...

was asked to design the Redentore church, the

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on October 22, 1630, decreed that a new church would be built. It was not to be dedicated to a mere "plague" or patron saint, but to the

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, who for many reasons was thought to be a protector of the Republic. The end of the 1630 plague was attributed to the

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of an icon of the Virgin Mary that was brought to Venice in 1670 by sea captain

Francesco Morosini Francesco Morosini (26 February 1619 – 16 January 1694) was the Doge of Venice from 1688 to 1694, at the height of the Great Turkish War. He was one of the many Doges and generals produced by the Venetian noble Morosini family.Encyclopæd ...

as a trophy following the peace terms obtained with the Turks in the

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(present-day

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). The icon was placed in its current position inside the basilica on

21 November Events Pre-1600 *164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event that is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.) * ...

, the patronal feast day. 20110724 Venice Santa Maria della Salute 5174

It was also decided that the Senate would visit the church each year. On November 21 the Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin, known as the ''Festa della Madonna della Salute'', the city's officials parade from

San Marco San Marco is one of the six sestiere (Venice), sestieri of Venice, lying in the heart of the city as the main place of Venice. San Marco also includes the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Although the district includes Piazza San Marco, Saint Mar ...

to the Salute for a service in gratitude for deliverance from the plague is celebrated. This involved crossing the Grand Canal on a specially constructed

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and is still a major event in Venice. The desire to create a suitable monument at a place that allows for easy processional access from Piazza San Marco led senators to select the present site from among eight potential locations. The location was chosen partially due to its relationship to San Giorgio, San Marco, and Il Redentore, with which it forms an arc. The ''Salute'', emblematic of the city's piety, stands adjacent to the rusticated single story

customs house A custom house or customs house was traditionally a building housing the offices for a jurisdictional government whose officials oversaw the functions associated with importing and exporting goods into and out of a country, such as collecting ...

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, the emblem of its maritime commerce, and near the civic center of the city. A dispute with the patriarch, owner of the church and seminary at the site, was resolved, and razing of some of the buildings began by 1631. Likely, the diplomat

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and Doge Nicolo Contarini shared the intent to link the church to an order less closely associated with the patriarchate, and ultimately the Somascan Fathers, an order founded near

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by a Venetian nobleman

Jerome Emiliani Gerolamo Emiliani, CRS ( also Jerome Aemilian, Hiëronymus Emiliani) (1486 – 8 February 1537) was an Italian humanitarian, founder of the Somaschi Fathers, and is considered a saint by the Catholic Church. Born in Venice, he spent some time i ...

, were invited to administer the church. A competition was held to design the building. Of the eleven submissions (including designs by

Alessandro Varotari Alessandro Leone Varotari (4 April 1588 – 20 July 1649), also commonly known as Il Padovanino, was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque Venetian school, best known for having mentored Pietro Liberi, Giulio Carpioni, an ...

, Matteo Ignoli, and Berteo Belli), only two were chosen for the final round. The architect

was selected to design the new church. It was finally completed in 1681 the year before Longhena's death. The other design to make it to the final round was by Antonio Smeraldi (''il Fracao'') and Zambattista Rubertini. Of the proposals still extant, Belli's and Smeraldi's original plans were conventional counter-reformation linear churches, resembling Palladio's Redentore and San Giorgio Maggiore, while Varotari's was a sketchy geometrical abstraction. Longhena's proposal was a concrete architectural plan, detailing the structure and costs. He wrote: Later in a memorandum, he wrote: "Firstly, it is a virgin work, never before seen, curious, worthy and beautiful, made in the form of a round monument that has never been seen, nor ever before invented, neither altogether, nor in part, in other churches in this most serene city, just as my competitor (''il Fracao'') has done for his own advantage, being poor in invention." The Salute, while novel in many ways, still shows the influence of Palladian classicism and the domes of Venice. The Venetian Senate voted 66 in favor, 29 against with 2 abstentions to authorize the designs of the 26-year-old Longhena. While Longhena saw the structure as crown-like, the decorative circular building makes it seem more like a

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, a ciborium, and embroidered inverted

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that shelters the city's piety.

Exterior

The ''Salute'' is a vast, octagonal building with two domes and a pair of picturesque bell-towers at the back. Built on a platform made of 1,000,000 wooden piles, it is constructed of

Istrian stone Istrian stone, ''pietra d'Istria'', the characteristic group of building stones in the architecture of Venice, Istria and Dalmatia, is a dense type of impermeable limestone that was quarried in Istria, nowadays Croatia; between Portorož and P ...

and ''

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'' (brick covered with marble dust). At the apex of the pediment stands a statue of the Virgin Mary who presides over the church which was erected in her honour. The façade is decorated with figures of

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, Saint Theodore, the Evangelists, the Prophets, Judith with the head of

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Façade

The main

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is richly decorated by statues of the four evangelists recently attributed to Tommaso Rues: Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Italy.jpg, The great dome Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute 3.JPG, Main entrance Evangelist Matthew by Tommaso Rues La Salute Venice.jpg, Matthew Evangelist Mark by Tommaso Rues La Salute Venice.jpg, Mark Saint Luke Tommaso Rues La Salute Venice.jpg, Luke Evangelist John by Tommaso Rues La Salute Venezia.jpg, John (Venice) - Santa Maria della Salute - Le due cupole e i due campanili.jpg, The two domes and the two bell towers

Interior

While its external decoration and location capture the eye, the internal design itself is quite remarkable. The octagonal church, while ringed by a classic vocabulary, hearkens to

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designs such as the

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. The interior has its architectural elements demarcated by the coloration of the material, and the central nave with its ring of saints atop a balustrade is a novel design. It is full of Marian symbolism – the great dome represents her crown, the cavernous interior her womb, the eight sides the eight points on her symbolic star. The interior is octagonal with eight radiating chapels on the outer row. The three altars to the right of the main entrance are decorated with scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary, patroness of the church, by

Luca Giordano Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Early l ...

: ''The Presentation of Our Lady in the Temple'', ''Assumption of Our Lady'', and ''Nativity of Our Lady''. The third altar to the left of the entrance hosts a painting by

Titian Tiziano Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. Ti ...

titled ''The Descent of the Holy Spirit''. The

high altar arrangement, designed by Longhena himself, shelters an iconic

''Madonna and Child'' of the 12th or 13th century, known as ''Panagia Mesopantitissa'' in Greek ("Madonna the mediator" or "Madonna the negotiator") and came from

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in 1669 after the

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of the city to the Ottomans. The statuary group at the high altar, depicting ''The Queen of Heaven expelling the Plague'' (1670) is a theatrical Baroque masterpiece by the Flemish sculptor

Josse de Corte 250px, ''Queen of Heaven expelling the Plague'', Main altar, Salute Josse de Corte (1627–1679) was a Baroque Flemish sculptor, born in Ypres, but mainly active in Venice after 1657. History He is also known as ''Giusto Le Court'' ''Giusto Cor ...

. It originally held

's painting of the Virgin holding a church that the painter submitted with his architectural proposal.

Tintoretto Jacopo Robusti (late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594), best known as Tintoretto ( ; , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized th ...

painted , displayed in the great

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, which includes a self-portrait. The most represented artist included in the church is

, who painted '' St. Mark Enthroned with Saints Cosmas, Damian, Sebastian and Roch'', the altarpiece of the sacristy, as well as ceiling paintings of ''

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'', '' Abraham and Isaac'' and ''

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'', and eight tondi of the eight Doctors of the Church and the Evangelists, all in the great sacristy, and ''Pentecost'' in the nave. 0 Venise, basilique Santa Maria della Salute (6).JPG, Pavement of the basilica 0 Venise, chœur de la basilique Santa Maria della Salute.JPG, Interior facing towards the high altar Le Court Altare S. Maria della Salute.jpg, High altar with the holy icon of ''Panagia Mesopantitissa'' 0 Venise, table d'autel de la basilique Santa Maria della Salute.JPG, Altar of a radiant chapel Santa Maria della Salute (Venice) - Discesa dello Spirito Santo di Tiziano (1555).jpg, ''The Descent of the Holy Spirit'' by

Santa Maria della Salute (Venice) - Venezia ai piedi di Sant'Antonio di Padova di Pietro Liberi.jpg, ''Venice at the Feet of St. Anthony of Padua'' by

Pietro Liberi Pietro (Libertino) Liberi (1605 – 18 October 1687) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era, active mainly in Venice and the Veneto. Biography Liberi was born in Padua, his earliest training was with Alessandro Varotari (''il Padovanino''). ...

Santa Maria della Salute (Venice) - Presentazione della virgine al tempio di Luca Giordano 1674.jpg, ''The Presentation of Our Lady in the Temple'' by

Interior of Santa Maria della Salute (Venice) - Altare dell'Assunta.jpg, ''Assumption of Our Lady'' by

Influence

The dome of the ''Salute'' was an important addition to the Venetian skyline and soon became emblematic of the city, inspiring painters like

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, ; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his ...

, and the Serbian poet

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to write a poem of the same title. The church had a large influence on contemporary architects immediately after its completion. The structures modeled after the church include the shrine in

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, built by Jerzy Catenazzi, Jan Catenazzi, and

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between 1675 and 1728, perhaps according to the original design by

Baldassarre Longhena Baldassare Longhena (1598 – 18 February 1682) was an Italian architect, who worked mainly in Venice, where he was one of the greatest exponents of Baroque architecture of the period. His style is characterized by monumentality, skillful use of l ...

. In 1959, the church was the subject of a design by John Piper, later adapted as a textile design by

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Ltd. The plans of the

Rotunda of Xewkija The Church of Saint John the Baptist, commonly known as the Rotunda of Xewkija or Xewkija Rotunda, is a Roman Catholic church in Xewkija, Gozo, Malta. History On 27 November 1678, Bishop Miguel Jerónimo de Molina raised Xewkija from a hamlet to ...

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were based on Santa Maria della Salute, but on a larger scale.

Notes

References

External links

Museum Planet:Virtual tour of Santa Maria della Salute
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