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Chiesa dei Gesuiti Tour

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View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  1) Chiesa dei Gesuiti [147]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  2) Chiesa dei Gesuiti Facade [52]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  3) Gesuiti Façade by Giuseppe Fattoretto [74]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  4) Gesuiti Facade carvings by Giuseppe Fattoretto [83]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  5) Chiese dei Gesuiti Facade - Santa Maria Assunta [80]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  6) Chiese dei Gesuiti Interior [136]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  7) Main Altar - Manin Family Donors [73]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  8) Ceiling decoration by Abbondio Stazio [38]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  9) Ceiling - 'The Glory of Angels' Painting by Ludovico Dorigny [31]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  10) High Altar by Fra Guiseppe Pozzo [88]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  11) Hight Altar - Dove of the Holy Ghost [19]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  12) Angel Michael Statue by Giuseppe Torretti [38]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  13) Main Altar [35]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  14) Left Transept Wall [31]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  15) Assumption by Tintoretto [30]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  16) Tomb of Doge Pasquale Cicogna [105]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  17) Sculpture of Doge Pasquale Cicogna [130]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  18) Sacristy Wall - Order of the Crociferi [43]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  19) Sacristy Altar - Pope Anacletus [60]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  20) Sacristy Left Wall - Pope Pius II gives a little silver cross to the Crociferi [25]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  21) Sacristy Right Wall - San Ciriaco reforms the Order of the Crociferi [34]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  22) 'Emporer Eraclio in Jerusalem carries the Holy Cross' by Palma il Giovane [25]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  23) Sacristy Ceiling - Palma Il Giovane [61]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  24) 'Death of St. Joseph' Painting by Domenico Clavarino [51]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  25) Left Aisle Wall [49]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  26) Left Aisle Pulpit [59]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  27) Martyrdom of St. Lawrence Painting by Titian [105]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  28) Preaching of St. Francis Xavier by Pietro Liberi [120]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  29) Tomb of Orazio Farnese [99]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  30) St. Ignatius Loyola Statue by Pietro Baratta [169]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  31) St. Ignatius Loyola Statue by Pietro Baratta [94]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  32) Virgin and St. Stanislao Kostkla, St. Louis and San Francesco Borgia Painting by Antonio Balestra [33]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  33) St. Barbara Statue by Giovanni Maria Morlaiter [79]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  34) 'Guardian Angel with Angels' Painting by Palma Il Giovane [30]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  35) Knave Ceiling Frescoes [21]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  36) Knave Ceiling Frescoes - 'Angels Appearing to Abraham' by Francesco Fontebasso [35]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  37) Da Lezze Family Monument by Jacopo Sansovino [95]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  38) Chiesa dei Gesuiti Internal Façade [31]

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From afar the Baroque top of the facade of the (Jesuit) church of the Gesuiti stands out as something special. The facade was paid for by the powerful Manin family. The family had a palazzo on the Grand Canal. One member of the Manin family would become famous for presiding over the fall of the Venetian Republic some 75 years after this church was built. Ludovico Manin was the last Doge of Venice. It was his ignominious duty to hand over the reigns of power to Napoleon. By tradition the Jesuits had always sought rich and powerful patrons to sponsor the building of their often lavish churches. Gesuiti was about their triumph. The previous church of the Crossbearers dating from the 12th Century was torn down in 1715 to make way for this building. Some of its monuments were reconstructed inside Gesuiti.











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