03 — ARTWORK
Santa Maria di Nazareth: Façade
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The church of Santa Maria di Nazareth, also known as the Scalzi, was designed by Baldassare Longhena between 1656 and 1672, and completed in 1680 by Giuseppe Sardi, who also designed the façadethe front or principal face of a building, especially one elaborately constructed; a blind façade is a façade that is purely decorative and does not relate to the structure of the building.. The church was the seat in Venice of the Discalced Carmelites"Brothers of Our Blessed Lady of Mount Carmel", a Roman Catholic order of contemplative mendicant friars. Founded in Palestine in the 12th century, the Carmelites were originally hermits. In the 13th century the order was refounded as an order resembling the Dominicans and Franciscans. An order of Carmelite sisters was founded in the 15th century; in the 16th century reforms introduced by St. Teresa of Ávila led to the creation of the Barefoot (Discalced) Carmelites. religious order (Scalzi in Italian means "barefoot").
This church appears in a way which has often been described as approaching the Roman style; it is therefore a moment of change in Longhena's language. That it was commissioned by the Carmelite Padre Giuseppe Pozzo, brother of the more famous Andrea Pozzo, was crucial and helped Longhena develop a particular style. In the interior the flavour of Rome in the mid-seventeenth century dominates.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Santa Maria di Nazareth: Façade by LONGHENA, Baldassare},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/longhena-baldassare-rb2f5247c581f50/santa-maria-di-nazareth-faade-rea94f8edba02e6},
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}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
