In the right corner as one enters the main door is the hanging sarcophagus of Marco Sanudo, an orator at this church, who died in 1505. The painting within the first marble altar frame is Palma Giovane's Virgin and Child with Saints in Glory.
Palma Il Giovane
b. as Jacopo Palma, Venice 1548 - d. 1628
Since the 17th Century, the painter has been known as Palma Il Giovane ('the younger') because his great uncle had the same name. He may have first trained in his father's workshop, but he became a much better painter. He did some early traveling to Urbino and to Rome. Palma Giovane received his first major public commission after the devastating fire in the Ducal Palace in 1577. He painted three canvases for the ceiling of the Great Council Hall, and nearly 20 years later he worked in the Senate Chamber of the Ducal Palace. One of his greatest commissions was for the oratory of the Crociferi between 1583 and 1592. After the death of Tintoretto in 1594, Palma Giovane became the most sought after artist in Venice He also worked further afield, in other regions of Italy, the Dalmatian coast and including the courts of the Emperor Rudolf II and of King Sigismund III of Poland.
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1) San Zaccaria Facade [87]
