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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.
Le Stanze del Vetro (in English: Rooms for Glass) is a gallery located on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy with rotating exhibits of Venetian glass. It is a joint venture between the Cini Foundation and Pentagram Stiftung, a non-profit foundation established by David Landau and Marie-Rose Kahane.
San Giorgio Maggiore is one of the islands of Venice, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island group. San Giorgio is now best known for the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore. Русский: Лидо, Италия.
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.
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Cannaregio Castello Dorsoduro San Marco San Polo Santa Croce This is a complete list of churches in Venice classified by " sestiere " in which the city is divided. These are Cannaregio , San Polo , Dorsoduro (including the Giudecca and Isola Sacca Fisola ), Santa Croce , San Marco (including San Giorgio Maggiore ) and Castello (including San ...
Description: Italian painter, etcher and drawer: Date of birth/death: 7 October 1697 / 17 October 1697 / 18 October 1697 / 1697 : 19 April 1758 / 10 April 1768 / 19 April 1768 / 20 April 1768 / 1768