The Piazzetta towards Santa Maria della Salute
Canaletto
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- The Piazzetta towards Santa Maria della Salute (Venice, The Piazzetta Looking South west towards Santa Maria della Salute)
Canaletto
c.1723-24
Oil on canvas
172.3 x 136.5 cm
Style: Baroque
Genre: cityscape
Location: Royal Collection (Buckingham Palace), London, UK
n the centre are the Dogana, or customs house, and the baroque church of Santa Maria della Salute. On top of the column on the right is a statue of St Theodosius, another patron saint. Originally, the column of St Mark was painted on the left, as in the preparatory drawing, but then replaced with a boat’s mast and sail.
The Church of Santa Maria della Salute is a case in point. In October of 1630, after nearly a third of Venice's 150,000 citizens had been killed by plague, the Venetian Senate made an offer to God: "Stop the plague, and we'll build a church to honor the Virgin Mary."
God came through, or maybe the onset of cooler weather reduced the population of plague-ridden fleas. Whatever the reason, the plague was stopped in its tracks. The Venetian authorities honored their promise by giving the Virgin a prime chunk of real estate near the tip of Dorsoduro, where the Grand Canal merged with St. Mark's Basin.
In the resulting competition for a church design, the winner was an unknown architect named Baldassare Longhena, who had proposed a massive octagonal basilica that combined elements of Venetian Byzantine architecture with domes inspired by St. Peter's in Rome. Longhena described his design as "strange, worthy, and beautiful...in the shape of a round 'machine' such as had never been seen, or invented either in its whole or in part from any other church in the city."
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