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Sant'Alvise Review
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Sant'Alvise
Religious Sites, Cannaregio
Fodor's Review:
Founded by young patrician Antonia Venier in the late 14th century after St. Louis, the bishop of Toulouse, had appeared to her in a dream, the church of Sant'Alvise takes its name from the Venetian dialect version of the saint's name. Three canvases depicting Christ's passion, which Giambattista Tiepolo originally created as a triptych, now hang here separated. The Ascent to Calvary in the chancel looks all the more painfully tragic because of its veritable parade of spectators. To the right, the pathos continues with Crowning with Thorns and the Flagellation. The ceiling's trompe l'oeil, a late-1600s work attributed to Pietro Antonio Torri and Pietro Ricchi, is striking for its use of color and perspective -- it seems to break right through the roof. In the back, supported by pillars, is the nuns' barco (choir stall), which connected directly to the convent. Below the barco are eight tempera paintings with biblical scenes that Ruskin enthusiastically identified as "baby Carpaccios." However, it turns out Carpaccio truly was little more than an infant at the time they were created; they've now been attributed to Lazzaro Bastiani (active 1449-1512), and the so-called Carpaccio signature identified as a 19th-century forgery.
INFO
- Address: Campo Sant'Alvise, Cannaregio, Venice
- Phone: 041/2750462 Chorus
- Cost: EUR 2.50; EUR 9 Chorus pass
- Open: Mon.-Sat. 10-5, Sun. 1-5
- Metro: Sant'Alvise
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