03 — ARTWORK
Santa Maria Maddalena: Façade
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Temanza's architectural projects are generally situated close to the Grand Canal, the preferred thoroughfare in Venice. Along this axis we find the church of Santa Maria Maddalena (called La Maddalena), work on which started in 1763 but was finished in 1789 after its architect's death. It makes reference to the Antiquethe classical age of Greece and Rome began with the Greek migrations of the 2nd millennium BC, and ended in the West in 476 AD with the deposition of the Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus (c. 475 AD); in the East it ended in 529 AD when the Platonic Academy was closed by Justinian (482 - 565 AD). with a clear quotation from the PantheonTemple built in Rome aloout 25 BC by Emperor Agrippa. Having a circular plan, and spanned by a single dome, it was one of the most distinctive and original buildings of ancient Rome.. The circular plan, which in the interior of the building contains an inscribed hexagon, concedes a single exception to the regularity of the order in that the apseA semicircular projection, roofed with a half-dome, at the east end of a church behind the altar. Smaller subsidiary apses may be found around the choir or transepts. Also known as an exedra. The adjective is apsidal. is a separate and eccentric space.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Santa Maria Maddalena: Façade by TEMANZA, Tommaso},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/temanza-tommaso-rb541bee735d5b6/santa-maria-maddalena-faade-ra5a8d55467b174},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
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