Il Redentore

Palladio's Church of the Redeemer in Venice, Italy

* Chiesa del Redentore
Campo del SS. Redentore 195, La Giudecca
Vaporetto: Redentore
tel. +39-041-523-1415 or +39-041-275-0462
www.chorusvenezia.org
Closed Sun morning (except for mass)
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Il Redentore, VeniceThe church of Il Redentore in Venice, built by Andrea Palladio in 1577. the bridge pictures is only erected for the late July Festa del Redentore, celebrating the lifting of a plague.Antonio Palladio was perhaps the greatest architect of the High Renaissance. Certainly his gorgeously precise pre-neoclassical "Palladian" style became an enormous influence on architects from Christopher Wren (think: London's St. Paul's Cathedral) to Thomas Jefferson (think: Monticello in Virginia; also, all of Washington, DC).

One of Palladio's greatest masterpieces is Venice's Il Redentore, commissioned by the city in thanks for being delivered from the great plague of 1575–77, which claimed over a quarter of the population (some 46,000 people).

The doge established a tradition of visiting this church by crossing a long pontoon bridge made up of boats from the Dorsoduro's Zattere on the third Sunday of each July, a tradition that survived the demise of the doges and remains one of Venice's most popular festivals, complete with fireworks and a gondola regatta—and it's the only time the island of Giudecca becomes physically connected to the rest of Venice.

The interior is done in grand, austere, painstakingly classical Palladian style. The artworks tend to be workshop pieces (from the studios or schools, but not the actual brushes, of Tintoretto and Veronese), but there is a fine Baptism of Christ by Veronese himself in the sacristy, which also contains Alvise Vivarini's good Adoration and Angels alongside works by Jacopo da Bassano and Palma il Giovane, who also did the Deposition over the right aisle's third chapel.

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