03 — ARTWORK
Gesuati: Façade
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COMMENTARY
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The Gesuati church, officially dedicated to Santa Maria del Rosario, was built between 1525 and 1536 by the Poor Gesuati order, which had arrived in Venice from Tuscany. After the suppression of Gesuati order, DominicansA Roman Catholic order of mendicant friars founded by St. Dominic in 1216 to spread the faith through preaching and teaching. The Dominicans were one of the most influential religious orders in the later Middle Ages, their intellectual authority being established by such figures as Albertus Magnus and St.Thomas Aquinas. The Dominicans played the leading role in the Inquisition. bought the place and constructed the present church, bigger than the previous one. They commissioned Giorgio Massari, whose model for the new church was accepted in 1724.
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. of the church rises above the busy, shifting waterfront on the Fondamenta delle Zattere, harmonizing with the Palladian buildings across the Giudecca Canal. The niches containing statues and the carved decorations are framed by giant Corinthian columns.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Gesuati: Façade by MASSARI, Giorgio},
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date = {2026-09-13},
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