# View of the Grimani Chapel

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## Artwork

- Artist: [FRANCO, Battista](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/franco-battista-r5b50bc35597fef>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

The church San Francesco della Vigna was designed in Renaissance style by Jacopo Sansovino. The façade of the church was ultimately commissioned in 1562 from Andrea Palladio by Cardinal Giovanni Grimani, one of the most active patrons of classical architecture and Mannerist painting in Venice. This church housed the Grimani family chapel which the cardinal transformed into a small but elegant showcase of Mannerist decorative art. The ceiling and the walls were frescoed by Battista Franco; &lt;a onclick=&#34;return OpenOther\(&#39;/html/z/zuccaro/federico/grimani.html&#39;\)&#34; href=&#34;/html/z/zuccaro/federico/grimani.html&#34;&gt;the altarpiece Adoration of the Magi&lt;/a&gt; is a fine work by Federico Zuccaro.

## Related artworks

- [Arrest of the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/franco-battista-r5b50bc35597fef/arrest-of-the-baptist-r76a94ba3af633d>)
- [Bacchantes with Apollo and Daphne](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/franco-battista-r5b50bc35597fef/bacchantes-with-apollo-and-daphne-rbd22752d2b61fc>)
- [Old Man Seated before a Statue of a Goddess](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/franco-battista-r5b50bc35597fef/old-man-seated-before-a-statue-of-a-goddess-r6d7acc23ae6b30>)
- [The Abduction of Deianeira](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/franco-battista-r5b50bc35597fef/the-abduction-of-deianeira-r54781ae07b4dff>)
- [The Baptism of Christ between Sts. Francis and Bernardine of Siena](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/franco-battista-r5b50bc35597fef/the-baptism-of-christ-between-sts-francis-and-bernardine-of-siena-rf16b5cd6141be1>)
- [The Battle of Montemurlo and the Rape of Ganymede](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/franco-battista-r5b50bc35597fef/the-battle-of-montemurlo-and-the-rape-of-ganymede-r2455e6ffea7e96>)
- [View of the vault](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/franco-battista-r5b50bc35597fef/view-of-the-vault-reb7cf46a708236>)

## Attribution

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