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The San Giorgio Monastery was established in 982, when the Benedictine monk Giovanni Morosini [1] asked the doge Tribuno Memmo to donate the whole island for a monastery. [2] Morosini drained the island's marshes next to the church to get the ground for building, and founded the Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, and became its first abbot. San ...
San Giorgio Maggiore (San Zorzi Mazor in Venetian) is a 16th-century Benedictine church on the island of the same name in Venice, northern Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio, and built between 1566 and 1610.
San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk, Claude Monet, 1908–1912. Over the centuries the monastery became a theological, cultural and artistic center of primary importance in Europe. The monks had considerable autonomy and close links with Florence and Padua, and thus it became also a favoured location for foreign dignitaries to stay while in the city.
Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore is an 1834 landscape painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner. [1] It depicts a view of the Punta della Dogana, a customs house, and the San Giorgio Maggiore church in Venice. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition in 1834. [2]
l'Île de San Giorgio Maggiore, la basilique San Giorgio Maggiore et ses anciens bâtiments abbatiaux (1566 - Andrea Palladio) à Venise (Italie). Orientation: Normal: Horizontal resolution: 72 dpi: Vertical resolution: 72 dpi: File change date and time: 14:43, 5 February 2016: Y and C positioning: Co-sited: Exposure Program: Not defined: Exif ...
Between 1641 and 1680 he designed the new library, the grand staircase, the monastery façade, the Novitiate building, the sick-room and the guest-rooms of the San Giorgio Maggiore monastery. Baldassare Longhena died at Venice in 1682.
The church was founded in 1448 at the same time as the hospital of Pietro Caracciolo, who had been the abbot of the nearby church of San Giorgio Maggiore. The original name was Santa Maria a Selice. In 1550 the church was ceded to the Dominican Order which in 1587 acquired the nearby Palazzo Como to use as a convent.
His first project in Venice was the cloister of the church of Santa Maria della Carità (1560–1561), followed by the refectory and then the interior of the San Giorgio Monastery (1560–1562). His style was rather severe compared with the traditional lavishness of Venetian Renaissance architecture .