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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.
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 ...
Punta della Dogana is an art museum in one of Venice's old customs buildings, the Dogana da Mar.It also refers to the triangular area of Venice where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal, and its collection of buildings: the church of Santa Maria della Salute, (hence the area is also known as Punta della Salute), the Patriarchal Seminary of Venice, and Dogana da Mar at the triangle's tip.
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.
L'Île de San Giorgio Maggiore et la basilique San Giorgio Maggiore et ses anciens bâtiments abbatiaux (1566 - Andrea Palladio) à Venise (Italie). Date: 22 August 2014: Source: Own work: Author: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT: Permission (Reusing this file)
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]
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.
One version of San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk was acquired in Paris by the Welsh art collector Gwendoline Davies. She bequeathed it to the Art Gallery (now National Museum Cardiff) in Cardiff, Wales. The painting is normally on display there. [1] [2] The other version is in the Bridgestone Museum of Art in Tokyo. [3]