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Il Redentore was built as a votive church in thanksgiving for deliverance from a major outbreak of the plague that decimated Venice between 1575 and 1576, in which some 46,000 people (25–30% of the population) died. [1] The Senate of the Republic of Venice commissioned the architect Andrea Palladio to design the votive church. [2]
In addition, the Zitelle's issues with funding present another barrier to being able to afford the design fee for the Church. [19] While many of the governors had ties to Palladio, it is much more likely that the Church was designed to bring civic piety to the Giudecca having been constructed after Il Redentore by an unknown architect. [19]
The religious order of the Jesuates, formally the Clerici apostolici Sancti Hieronymi was founded in Siena in the 14th century and had a presence in Venice by 1390. Its members were known as I poveri Gesuati (the poor Jesuates) because they frequently called on the name of Jesus; they had no connection with the Jesuits (I Gesuiti), whose church is in the north of Venice.
The Festa del Redentore is an event held in Venice the third Sunday of July where fireworks play an important role.. The Redentore began as a feast – held on the day of the Feast of the Most Holy Redeemer – to give thanks for the end of the terrible plague of 1576, which killed 50,000 people, [1] including the great painter Tiziano Vecellio (Titian).
The church was designed by the famous Andrea Palladio, and the corner-stone was laid by the Patriarch Trevisan on 3 May, 1577. The celebrated painters Paolo Veronese and Jacopo Tintoretto decorated the interior. The church was consecrated in 1592, and, at the urgent solicitations of Pope Gregory XIII, placed in charge of the Capuchin Fathers.
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Church of Le Zitelle, Venice (uncertain attribution) c. 1576 (built 1576–1580): Valmarana Chapel in the Church of Santa Corona, for Isabella Nogarola Valmarana, Vicenza; 1576 (built 1577–1586): Church of Il Redentore, Venice; 1578 (built 1588–1590): Church of Santa Maria Nova, Vicenza (project attributed, completed after Palladio's death)
The church has a large dome which indicates the church's ecclesiastical importance, sharing an affinity with San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore both churches designed by Palladio. The dome is supported on a drum which has rectangular windows cut into it to let light into the building. The church's campanile is one of the most precarious in ...