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Chiesa della Salute Venezia
HISTORICAL BUILDINGS: CHURCH OF THE HEALTH
A masterpiece of Baroque art

 

 

The Basilica della Salute is one of the greatest Venetian buildings, important not only in terms of urban and architectural. Indeed, it is linked to an event of great historical tragedy: the pest, which brought to Venice from a galley coming from the orient and then propagated throughout Italy and Europe, caused thousands of victims. The terrible plague decimated the population of Venice to reduce it about the half the number. On 22 October 1630, the Doge Nicolo Contarini in St. Mark's Basilica in Venice expressed a solemn vow already decided in the Senate to erect a church dedicated to Our Lady in order to obtain the cessation of terrible plague and promised to go on pilgrimage every year to church as a thanksgiving to the merciful help. For the construction of this temple were presented 11 projects, among which was chosen to Baldassarre Longhena who was noted for its originality and greatness. The young architect, at the biginning of the work in 1631 at only twenty-six years, he imagined his temple placed in the top of a wide staircase, central plan covered by a huge dome and characterized by massive buttresses outside. always at the external side of the octagonal plant were adorned with pillars, gables, niches and statues. Considered one of the finest examples of Venetian baroque architecture, the Basilica of Health is undoubtedly one of the most beloved churches of Venice.


External
The facade of the basilica is characterized by a grandiose portal flanked by four Corinthian columns. The large hemispherical dome instead rests on the central body which has an octagonal shape, surrounded by six smaller chapels. At the extreme of the dome you can admire the beautiful statue of the Virgin Mary.


Internal
The inside of the Basilica is spacious and is widely lit from the windows of the six thermal side chapels and windows of the drum of the dome. Light emphasizes the floor tiles of colored marble. In the side chapels are paintings by Luca Giordano and from the Descent of the Holy Spirit of Titian (1555). A statue of St. Jerome Miani of John Mary Morlaiter on the altar of Assunta in front of the altarpiece by Luca Giordano.

 

 

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