What's your favorite church in Venice....excluding St. Mark's?
Feb 11th, 2007, 02:42 PM
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What's your favorite church in Venice....excluding St. Mark's?
DH reluctantly agreeing to Venice...I know, but we won't go there. 
Anyway, he loves wandering through churches so I would like to know what your favorites are. Thanks!
Anyway, he loves wandering through churches so I would like to know what your favorites are. Thanks!
Feb 11th, 2007, 03:33 PM
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The one church I am making a beeline for the next time in Venice is the Church of Angelo Raffaele in Campo Angelo Raffaele (Dorsoduro). This is the church in a book I loved, "Miss Garnet's Angel". This book, based in Venice, was a sleeper hit in England and then came over to the US. It is the story of a retired teacher who decides to spend six months in Venice and befriends a couple of twins restoring this church. The descriptions of Venice are so unique. This church contains a number of paintings of the Guardi brothers, depicting the story of the Angel Tobias, which plays a big part in the book. Have fun!! By the way the Angel Raphael is associated so much with Venice because it is believed that the Black Death (the plague) came from the East to Europe via Venice; Raphael is the anfgel associated with healing.
Feb 11th, 2007, 03:52 PM
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Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. Titian's Assumption of the Virgin (over the main altar) will take your breath away. Go in the morning on a sunny day to get the full effect of light streaming through the apse windows around the painting. Sigh.
Feb 11th, 2007, 09:02 PM
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Hi Holly, I immediately thought of the church next to the train station also.
The complete name of it is Santa Maria di Nazareth degli Scalzi. I double checked on my map. For me it is a very special church.
The complete name of it is Santa Maria di Nazareth degli Scalzi. I double checked on my map. For me it is a very special church.
Feb 12th, 2007, 04:54 PM
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Santa Maria dei Miracoli, S. Giovanni Decollato, S. Salvatore, S. Maria Formosa, S. Sebastiano... if I were to choose only one single church, it would be S. Maria dei Miracoli.
Btw, nobody alive has attended mass at Santa Maria Maggiore in Venice, nor is it on any island. S. Maria Maggiore has been closed down in the 19th century (maybe even by the Napoleonic occupants, I don't recall exactly) and is today part of the prison of Venice, but not as the prison chapel - it's some kind of storage room. Did you perhaps want to say S. Giorgio Maggiore?
Btw, nobody alive has attended mass at Santa Maria Maggiore in Venice, nor is it on any island. S. Maria Maggiore has been closed down in the 19th century (maybe even by the Napoleonic occupants, I don't recall exactly) and is today part of the prison of Venice, but not as the prison chapel - it's some kind of storage room. Did you perhaps want to say S. Giorgio Maggiore?
Feb 12th, 2007, 06:26 PM
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travelfan,
I answered a similar question several months ago by saying:
Santa Maria dei Miracoli because this tiny chapel buried in the back streets of Venice really captivated me with its beauty, especially the ceiling, which is a gilded barrel vault, and beautifully decorated..it is in some ways very simple, just a single middle aisle, but there is a hush and an intimacy that is wonderful...it is like a little jewel box..
I answered a similar question several months ago by saying:
Santa Maria dei Miracoli because this tiny chapel buried in the back streets of Venice really captivated me with its beauty, especially the ceiling, which is a gilded barrel vault, and beautifully decorated..it is in some ways very simple, just a single middle aisle, but there is a hush and an intimacy that is wonderful...it is like a little jewel box..
Feb 13th, 2007, 04:50 AM
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I highly recommend the lovely and off-the-beaten-track Church of the Madonna dell’Orto, in the Cannaregio district: You’ll find several major paintings by Tintoretto. The painter’s ashes, along with those of his son and daughter, are buried in a chapel on the right of the apse.
