Category 02

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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A Byzantine church grafted onto a Venetian piazza, faced in marble looted from a dozen ports, and roofed inside with eig…

The white octagonal basilica that closes the Grand Canal, raised in thanks for the end of the 1630 plague and held up on…

A vast brick Franciscan church that holds Titian's Assumption, his tomb, Canova's pyramid and the wooden choir…

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