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Chiesa di Ognissanti
Church of Ognissanti
Religion
AffiliationRoman Catholic
Year consecrated1586
StatusActive
Location
LocationDorsoduro, Venice, Italy
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Geographic coordinates45°25′52.07″N 12°19′23.88″E / 45.4311306°N 12.3233000°E / 45.4311306; 12.3233000
Architecture
TypeChurch
StyleRenaissance
Groundbreaking1505

Ognissanti (Italian: Chiesa di Ognissanti) is a 16th-century Roman Catholic church located in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the Italian city of Venice.

History

In the 15th century, the area of the current church housed a monastery of Cistercian nuns who had moved here from Torcello, the nearby islands now largely uninhabitable. In 1472 a hospice was built with an annexed small church, which is shown in the plan of Venice made by Jacopo de' Barbari. This was replaced from 1505 by the current building, consecrated in 1586.

The church and the nunnery were suppressed by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807 and left abandoned until Giovan Battista Giustinian [it] turned them into a convalescent facility for elderly people. Later the monastery became a hospital, active until the mid-1990s, while the church, contained in the former's perimeter, was used for religious functions for recovered people.

It now forms part of the Giustinian Hospital.

Description

The church's façade is divided into three vertical sectors, corresponding to the nave and aisles of the interior. The portal has a simple structure, flanked and surmounted by arched, large windows.

The church has a bell tower with a top in Baroque top.

Description

The high facade is divided vertically into three. The church is flanked on the left side by the bell tower. Internally, the church has a single nave with no aisle. There is a large gallery for the nuns at the back of the church.

  • General view of the interior of the church General view of the interior of the church
  • The high altar The high altar
  • Fresco in the apse. Fresco in the apse.
  • Vault above the altar. Vault above the altar.
  • Chapel to the right of the choir. Chapel to the right of the choir.
  • Ceiling of the nave. Ceiling of the nave.

Works of Art

On 13 March 1673 Agostino Litterini received an important commission from Abbess Teodora Sansonio for the decoration of the main chapel in collaboration with the painter Bologna Giacomo Grassi.

Litterini painted a fresco of The Last Supper in the apse. He also painted The Glory of Paradise in the vault of the same chapel. Because of the stylistic similarities, it is possible to assume the same painters worked on the frescoes in the two side chapels of the presbytery. In the left one, which belongs to the Michiel family, Litterini painted God the Father at the back of the chapel and four Virtues in the vault. In the Battaglia Chapel, on the right, are the Virgin in Glory and two angels bearing flowers and fruit.

In Place

Moved or Lost

Unknown Status

References

  1. image on Slow Travel
  2. Giampaolo, Onesto (2001). Interventi di restauro nella chiesa di Ognissanti a Venezia. Il Prato. ISBN 9788887243161.
  3. "Agostino Litterini (Letterini) in dizionario biografico Treccani | Raffaella Losapio".
  4. ^ De Boni, Filippo (1840). Biografia degli artisti: Volume unico. Company' tipi del Gondoliere.
  5. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/marco-del-moro_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 38 (1990)]
  6. Ugo Galetti e Ettore Camesasca, Enciclopedia della pittura italiana, vol. 1, Garzanti, 1950 p.21
  7. http://www.gallerieaccademia.it/works?field_name_value=&title=&field_soggetto_value=&page=14&order=title&sort=desc List of works on the site of the Accademia Gallery
  8. Maria Farquhar. Ralph Nicholson Wornum, ed. Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, London. 1855 p. 84.

Bibliography

  • Umberto Franzoi, Dina Di Stefano, The Churches of Venice (in Italian), Alfieri, Venice, 1976
  • Giampaolo Onesto, Interventi di restauro nella Chiesa di Ognissanti a Venezia, Padova, Il Prato, 2001, ISBN 8887243492.
  • Franzoi, Umberto; Di Stefano, Dina (1976). Le chiese di Venezia. Venice: Alfieri editore.

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