San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice

San Giovanni Gristomo is a church in Venice's Cannaregio district. In its immediate vicinity is the originally named after the church Teatro Malibran.

Consecrated the church is the Byzantine church teacher and bishop of Constantinople, John Chrysostom Opel.

History

The origins of the church in the narrow and densely populated Rialto neighborhood date back to the 9th century. In 1497 the church was completely rebuilt after it had fallen victim to a fire that had destroyed many houses also of the district, including of Marco Polo.

1488 Pope Innocent VIII granted all donors a sum of money for the rebuilding of the church a drain. The construction contract was awarded to the Venetian architect Mauro Codussi, work began 1495th San Giovanni Crisostomo was the last of Codussis churches in Venice. Codussi died in 1504 before the interior work was completed. In 1504 the church was consecrated. In the following years, the road was extended at the request of the Senate before the church. Construction of the new Campanile was completed in 1590.

On February 26, 1918 Austrian troops have fired at Venice and the church facade damaged.

Architecture

Codussi designed a cross-domed church on the plan of a Greek cross. The building is plastered brick-red, the supporting and articulating and elements such as pilasters, friezes, roofing of the portal and Fenstereinrahmungen are made of Istrian stone. The interior is bright plastered, here are supporting and articulating elements in the typical manner for Codussi deposed dark gray.

Interior decoration

The church is equipped with several outstanding paintings and reliefs of Venetian artists of the Renaissance. The ducted in Pala marble in the chancel is a Sacra Conversazione to the church patron John Chrysostom. It is one of the last pictures that Sebastiano del Piombo painted before his departure to Rome for Venice.

Side chapels of the churches contain altarpieces by Giovanni Bellini ( The Saints Christopher, Jerome and Louis of Toulouse, 1523) and the German Baroque painter Karl Loth (Death of St Joseph 1679 ). The Capella Barnabò has been inflicted by a foundation of rich silk weavers family Bernabo de Catenariis di Montepulciano later. The relief of a Coronation of the Virgin of white marble, a masterpiece of the Venetian sculptor Tullio Lombardo and Architects (1502 ), is also a foundation of the family.

Opening times

Daily from 8:15 bis 12:15 clock and 15 to 19 clock.