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describes as "one of the ablest sculptors in eighteenth century Venice" and
Semenzato as "the most brilliant interpreter of the rococo in Venetian sculpture", adding that "His work shows great dynamism" and "an inexhaustible felicity of invention". There is more of his work in the church than
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To support the weight of the facade, 270 piles had to be driven into the soil . Giant
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monochrome paintings on the ceiling, near the High Altar, shows St. Dominic, kneeling, blessing a
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decoration intact. The church and almost all its sculpture and paintings were created within a thirty-year period: construction began in 1725, the church was consecrated in 1743, and the last sculptural decoration was in place by 1755.
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1059:Levey p. 81
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768:Saint Peter
712:Hugh Honour
692:Crucifixion
662:Pope Pius V
430:Description
225:, northern
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52:Affiliation
1301:Categories
889:References
843:presbytery
776:Saint Paul
696:Tintoretto
608:(1743) by
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406:Temperance
288:Dominicans
284:Clement IX
280:Visitation
272:St. Jerome
238:Background
167:12°19â˛38âłE
164:45°25â˛46âłN
1312:Dorsoduro
702:Sculpture
545:Paintings
398:Fortitude
264:I Gesuiti
221:canal in
217:, on the
215:Dorsoduro
211:I Gesuati
197:Completed
1205:pp. 36â8
502:Interior
377:Prudence
317:Palladio
276:St. Mary
244:Jesuates
219:Giudecca
80:Location
75:Location
64:Province
46:Religion
990:pp. 7â9
879:Tiepolo
385:Justice
294:History
278:of the
260:Jesuits
86:, Italy
29:Gesuati
21:Jesuati
452:, and
435:Facade
231:Rococo
223:Venice
84:Venice
69:Venice
1253:p. 36
1236:p. 41
1193:p. 38
1154:p. 35
1086:p. 15
1074:p. 13
973:Notes
881:, of
873:Choir
252:Siena
227:Italy
1029:p. 9
1002:p. 8
323:and
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