Gesuati
Santa Maria del Rosario commonly known as I Gesuati is a church of the Dominicans in the 18th century in the Dorsoduro district of Venice.
It is the successor of the former church of Santa Maria della Jesuatenkirche Visitation.
History
The community of Gesuati or Jerónimos ( poveri Gesuati ), was founded in Siena in the 14th century and the Order of the Jesuits ( Gesuiti ), which have their church in the north of Venice, nothing to do. The Gesuati had since the end of the 14th century, first in the parish of Santa Giustina, a resident from 1397 in Saint Agnes, where a Saint Jerome consecrated convent with cloister raised on the Zattere. After the community in 1668 by Pope Clement IX. had been dissolved, the Serenissima sold the property to the Order of the Dominicans.
Since the Convention related, still existing early Renaissance church of Santa Maria della Visitation no longer met the Dominicans, they decided to build a new church next to it. 1716, after the victory of Prince Eugene of Savoy over the Turks in the Battle of Petrovaradin in Hungary, you took the donated after the Battle of Lepanto Rosenkranzfest finally on the Roman calendar. The Dominicans wanted to promote with this church the worship of the Rosary and glorify the glory of their order.
The plans submitted by Giorgio Massari 1724 were approved. The church of Santa Maria della Visitation was not included in the new building. With the façade he leaned on to San Giorgio Maggiore, in the interior of Il Redentore, ie at Palladio. The foundation stone was laid in the presence of the Patriarch Marco Gradenigo on 17 May in 1726. Ten years later the building was substantially completed. The Dominicans rallied vigorously large sums for the construction, which allowed them to build a great church and equip them to be of the first painters and sculptors of their time. It is thanks to the example of the generous donation of the nobles Virginia Correr that the façade was completed and not, as in the Pietà, on the Riva degli Schiavoni, which was completed on the grounds of cityscape care until the 20th century.
Facade
Conceived on long term basis, diagonally opposite location of Palladio Pestkirche Il Redentore face side, with four colossal Corinthian half-columns, has in two superposed large niches sculptures of the worldly virtues ( prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance ) derived from Gaetano susali, Francesco Bonazza Giuseppe Bernardi Torretti and Alvise Tagliapietra were created. The two side-mounted on the domed presbytery low bell towers are related to Il Redentore.
Justice
Bravery
Moderation
Interior
The bright, single-nave interior forms an ellipse, which is bounded by six Corinthian half-columns. Between the columns are three on each side chapels.
1737-39, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ceiling fresco with the three-part
- Mary Appearing to St. Dominic
- Maria handed over to St. Dominic the Rosary
- Gloria of St. Dominic.
In the first chapel on the right is an oil painting is by Tiepolo: Mary appears the Holy Dominican Sisters St Catherine of Siena, Rose of Lima and Agnes of Montepulciano.
Over the third altar on the right side of an oil painting by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, are shown on the three saints of the Dominicans. These three saints ( Luis Beltrán, Vincent Ferrer and Hyacinth of Poland) symbolize the missionary activities of the Order.
On the altarpiece by Sebastiano Ricci in the first chapel on the left side three of the most famous Dominicans are represented: Pope Pius V, Thomas Aquinas and Saint Peter of Verona.
In the third chapel on the left, we find a Crucifixion by Tintoretto. This image comes from the nearby church of Santa Maria della Visitation, was in a very poor condition and was restored by Ricci.
The sculptures of the interior were created by Giovanni Maria Morlaiter 1738-1755. Morlaiter, which dates from the Pusteria, is considered one of the most important sculptor of the Rococo in Venice.
Sculptures by Giovanni Maria Morlaiter
Saint Peter
St. Paul
The prophet Melchizedek
The standing under the dome, decorated with rich marble inlays high altar in rococo style is topped by a 4 pillared canopy. The tabernacle of lapis lazuli gives the whole a splendid touch.