Summary
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Basilica of St. Mark the Evangelist
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Type: basiliche
Date: 1464 / 1735
Period: Quattrocento (Was characterized by the use of the perspective gave the artists of that period the chance to renovate the antic and classic art)
Address: Piazza di San Marco, 48
(Centro Storico)
Zone: Rione IX Pigna
Phone: 066795205
Internet: www.sanmarcoevangelista.i...
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Built-in Palazzo Venezia , the Basilica of San Marco was founded in 336 in honor of the homonymous evangelist
Location and History
It is located square venice beside Palazzo Venezia . It was built in 336 and rebuilt in 833 by Pope Gregory IV . The baroque decorations are due to the restoration of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Description
The facade of the church, consisting of a lodge for the blessings, was built with marble coming from Colosseum , from Theatre of Marcellus and other ancient existing buildings. The three-arched portico and facade are in Renaissance style and denounce the influence of the architect Leon Battisti Alberti . The interior, though clearly Baroque, retains some remarkable elements of previous eras to witness to the long history of the church:
the magnificent coffered ceiling of 400
the magnificent apse mosaic depicting Pope Gregory IV
- Leon Battisti Alberti
- (Architetto)
realizzò La facciata, costituita da una loggia per le benedizioni e da un portico a tre arcate con semi colonne addossate a pilastri. Una delle architetture del Rinascimento più eleganti a Roma
Filippo Barigioni (Architetto) la restaurò tra il 1740 ed il 1750 alterando con decorazioni barocche la fisionomia dell'interno.
Gregorio IV (Pontefice) la riedificò quasi completamente nel 833 e ordinò la decorazione dell'abside e la costruzione dell'arco trionfale con i mosaici che ancora oggi si conservano..
- Pietro Barbo said Pope Paolo II
- (Pontefice)
la ricostruì in gran parte nelle sue forme attuali nel 1460 circa e ne fece la chiesa dei veneziani a Roma
Giuliano Amadei (Pittore) dipinse il magnifico soffitto ligneo a cassettoni del '400.
Pier Francesco Mola (Pittore) con la pala d'altare "San Michele Arcangelo scaccia Satana" databile nel periodo 1653 - 1659 e l'affresco "Martirio dei Santi Abdon e Sennen"
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Marco De' Dolci (Incisore) intagliò il magnifico soffitto ligneo a cassettoni del '400.
Giovanni De' Dolci (Incisore) intagliò il magnifico soffitto ligneo a cassettoni del '400.
- Antonio Canova
- (Scultore)
realizzò la Tomba di Leonardo Pesaro. Si tratta del monumento funebre dedicato al figlio dell’ultimo ambasciatore di Venezia morto a soli sedici anni e vissuto nel palazzo adiacente
Baccio Ciarpi (Pittore) con il dipinto "San Domenico resuscita il giovane Napoleone Orsini".
Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (Pittore) con il dipinto "Sant'Orsola e le compagne, papa Ciriaco e santa Caterina d'Alessandria" del 1608.
- Ciro Ferri
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con il dipinto "Madonna con Bambino e santa Martina" databile nel periodo 1654 - 1689
Guillaume Courtois (Pittore) con l' affresco "I santi Abdon e Sennen seppelliscono i corpi dei martiri" databile nel periodo 1654 - 1657.
Luigi Primo said Gentile (Pittore) con il dipinto "Madonna con Bambino, san Giovanni Battista e sant'Antonio da Padova".
Other:
Clemente Orlandi (Architetto), Giovanni Dalmata (Architetto), Isaia Da Pisa (Scultore), Mino Di Giovanni Mini said Mino Da Fiesole (Scultore), Pietro Berrettini said Pietro da Cortona (Pittore), Pietro Cavallini said Romano (Pittore)
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