Churches
Venetian churches were built by men who paid for their absolution in marble. The result is some of the densest religious art on earth.
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In this categoryBasilica di San Marco
A Byzantine church grafted onto a Venetian piazza, faced in marble looted from a dozen ports, and roofed inside with eig…
Santa Maria della Salute
The white octagonal basilica that closes the Grand Canal, raised in thanks for the end of the 1630 plague and held up on…
Basilica dei Frari
A vast brick Franciscan church that holds Titian's Assumption, his tomb, Canova's pyramid and the wooden choir…
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