Information about Il Redentore

Exterior from the Canale della Giudecca.

Interior.

Il Redentore, more properly Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore (Church of the Most Holy Redeemer), is Andrea Palladio's great domed church on Giudecca, one of the islands of Venice. Located on the waterfront of the Canale della Giudecca, it dominates the skyline of the island.

The Redentore was built in thanksgiving for deliverance from the plague that decimated Venice from 1575 to 1576, in which some 46,000 people, 25-30 per cent of the population, died. The Senate commissioned the great architect Palladio to design it. Construction began in May 1577. The building was in a satisfactory stage and was consecrated in 1592.^[1]

Every year, the doge and senators walked across a specially constructed pontoon bridge from the Zattere to Giudecca and attended Mass in the church. The Festa del Redentore remains a major festival in the Venetian calendar, celebrated on the third Sunday in July. A huge firework display on the previous evening is followed by a mass procession across the pontoon bridge. The church has always been entrusted to the Capuchin friars, the youngest branch of the Franciscans, and about twenty now live in the attached monastery.

The Chiesa del Redentore, in the most prominent site of any of Palladio's structures, is considered one of the pinnacles of his career. It is a large, white building with a dome crowned by a statue of the Redeemer. In the façade a central triangular pediment overlies a larger, lower one, a feature often repeated by other architects in the following two centuries. The white stucco and gray stone interior combines a long nave with a domed crossing, in spaces that are clearly articulated yet unified. An uninterrupted Corinthian order makes its way around the entire interior.

The Redentore contains paintings by Francesco Bassano, Lazzaro Bastiani, Carlo Saraceni, Leandro Bassano, Palma the Younger, Jacopo Bassano, Francesco Bissolo, Rocco Marconi, Paolo Veronese, Alvise Vivarini and the workshop of Tintoretto. The sacristy also contains a series of wax heads of Franciscans made in 1710.

References

1. ^ Constant, Caroline. The Palladio Guide. New York: Princeton Press, 1993. 122-124

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Andrea Palladio (November 30, 1508 – August 19, 1580), was an Italian architect, widely considered the most influential person in the history of Western architecture.
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Giudecca is an island in the Venetian Lagoon lying immediately south of the central islands, from which it is separated by the Giudecca Canal.

Originally known as the Spinalunga, the island may have been renamed for the Jewish people who settled there.
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Country Italy
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Yersinia pestis'' seen at 2000x magnification with a fluorescent label. This bacterium, carried and spread by fleas, is the cause of the various forms of the disease plague.
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senate is a deliberative body, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature. There have been many such bodies in history, the first of which was the Roman Senate.

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Doxe), a rare but not unique Italian title derived from the Latin Dux, as the major Italian parallel Duce and the English Duke. Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy. Commonly the person selected as Doge was the shrewdest elder in the city.
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pontoon bridge or floating bridge is a bridge that floats on water, supported by barge-or-boat-like pontoons to support the bridge deck and its dynamic loads. While pontoon bridges are usually temporary structures, some are used for long periods of time.
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The Festa del Redentore is an event held in Venice on the third Saturday and Sunday in July.

The Redentore began as a feast to give thanks for the end of the terrible plague of 1576, which killed 50,000 people, including the great painter Tiziano Vecellio (Titian).
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For other uses, see Capuchin.

The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (O.F.M. Cap; in England and Ireland, O.S.F.C) is an order of friars in the Catholic Church, among the chief offshoots of the Franciscans.
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Franciscan is used to refer to those in Roman Catholic and Anglican religious orders which follow a body of regulations known as "The rule of St. Francis" ,^[1] or a member of one of these orders. There are also small Old Catholic and Protestant Franciscan communities.
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Monastery (plural: Monasteries), a term derived from the Greek word μοναστήριον (monastērion), denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer (e.g.
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A crossing, in ecclesiastical architecture, is the junction of the four arms of a cruciform (cross-shaped) church.

In a typically oriented church (especially of Romanesque and Gothic styles), the crossing gives access to the nave on the west, the transept arms on the
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Corinthian order (named after the city Corinth, or Korinth, Greek: Κόρινθος, Kórinthos) is one of the Classical orders of Greek and Roman architecture, characterized by a slender fluted column and an ornate capital decorated with acanthus
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Two Italian painters, grandfather and grandson, are named Francesco Bassano:

Francesco Bassano the Elder (c. 1475–1539).
Francesco Bassano the Younger (1549–1592).

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Lazzaro Bastiani (1449 – 1512) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mianly in Venice. He is first recorded as a painter by 1460 as paid for an altarpiece in San Samuele. In the 1480s he worked with Gentile Bellini for the Scuola Grande di San Marco.
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Carlo Saraceni (Venice c. 1570-Venice, 16 June 1620) was an Italian early-Baroque painter.

Though he was born and died in Venice, in style his paintings are more Roman, a city to which he moved to in 1598, and where he lived for the majority of his mature career, joining the
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Leandro Bassano, (b.June 10, 1557; d. in Venice, April 15, 1622), also called Leandro del Ponte, a venetian artist and younger brother of Francesco Bassano the Younger and third son of Jacopo Bassano, who took their name from the town of Bassano del Grappa.
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Palma il Giovane, Italian for Palma the Younger, is the common nickname of the Italian painter Jacopo Palma il Giovane (1544 – 1628), used to distinguished him from his more reputed granduncle Palma il Vecchio.
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Jacopo Bassano (also known as Giacomo da Ponte, c. 1515 - 13 February 1592) was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, from which he adopted the name.
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Francesco Bissolo was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. Active during first decade of 1500s in Venice, where he is described as a pupil of Giovanni Bellini. There is painting by Bissolo in the church of il Redentore, a painting of
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Rocco Marconi (born before 1490 – May 13 1529) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Venice and Treviso. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Bellini along with Vittore Belliniano and Girolamo Santacroce. His first wife died in 1511.
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Paolo Veronese (1528 – April 19 1588) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi.
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Alvise or Luigi Vivarini, (c. 1446 – 1502), was an Italian painter, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Like Bellini, he was part of a dynasty of painters.
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Tintoretto

Detail of a self-portrait
Birth name Jacopo Comin
29 September 1518
Venice
31 May 1594
Venice
Venetian
Field painting
short apprenticeship with Titian
Italian Renaissance

Tintoretto
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sacristy is a room for keeping vestments (such as the cassock and chasuble) and other church furnishings, sacred vessels, and parish records.

The sacristy is usually located inside the church, but in some cases it is an annex or separate building (as in some monasteries).
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