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The Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, usually just called the Frari, is one of the greatest churches of Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
 and has the status of a minor basilica. It stands on the Campo dei Frari at the heart of the San Polo
San Polo

San Polo is the smallest of the six sestiere of Venice, covering just 86 acres along the Grand Canal of Venice. It is one of the oldest parts of the city, having been settled before the ninth century, when it and San Marco formed part of the Realtine Islands....
 district of the city. The church is dedicated to the Assumption
Assumption of Mary

The Roman Catholic Church teaches as Dogma that the Mary , "having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory." This means that Mary was transported into Heaven with her body and soul united....
 (Assunzione della Beata Virgine).

The Franciscans were granted land to build a church in 1250, but the building was not completed until 1338.






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The Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, usually just called the Frari, is one of the greatest churches of Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
 and has the status of a minor basilica. It stands on the Campo dei Frari at the heart of the San Polo
San Polo

San Polo is the smallest of the six sestiere of Venice, covering just 86 acres along the Grand Canal of Venice. It is one of the oldest parts of the city, having been settled before the ninth century, when it and San Marco formed part of the Realtine Islands....
 district of the city. The church is dedicated to the Assumption
Assumption of Mary

The Roman Catholic Church teaches as Dogma that the Mary , "having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory." This means that Mary was transported into Heaven with her body and soul united....
 (Assunzione della Beata Virgine).

The Franciscans were granted land to build a church in 1250, but the building was not completed until 1338. Work almost immediately began on its much larger replacement, the current church, which took over a century to build. The campanile
Campanile

A campanile – pronounced – is, especially in Italy, a free-standing bell tower, often adjacent to a church or cathedral....
, the second tallest in the city after that of San Marco, was completed in 1396.

The imposing edifice is built of brick
Brick

A brick is a block of ceramic material used in masonry construction, usually laid using mortar ....
, and is one of the city's three notable churches built in the Italian Gothic
Italian Gothic architecture

The Gothic architecture appeared in Italy in the 12th century. Italian Gothic always maintained peculiar characteristic which differentiated its evolution from that in France, where it had originated, and in other European countries....
 style. As with many Venetian churches, the exterior is rather plain. The interior contains the only rood screen
Rood screen

The rood screen is a common feature in late medieval parish church architecture. It is typically an ornate screen, constructed of wood, stone or wrought iron....
 still in place in Venice.

The Frari is a parish church of the Vicariate of San Polo-Santa Croce-Dorsoduro. The other churches of the parish are San Barnaba, San Ludovico Vescovo, Santa Maria del Soccorso and Santa Margherita.

Works of art

  • Giovanni Bellini
    Giovanni Bellini

    Giovanni Bellini was an Italy Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venice painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna....
    , Madonna and Child with SS Nicholas of Bari, Peter, Mark and Benedict, the sacristy altarpiece
  • Bartolomeo Bon
    Bartolomeo Bon

    Bartolomeo Bon was an Italy sculptor and architect from Campione d'Italia.Together with his father Giovanni Bon, he worked in Venice: they finished the decoration of the famous Gothic architecture Ca' d'Oro and the marble door of the Basilica di Santa Maria dei Frari....
    's workshop, figures of the Virgin and St Francis on the west front
  • Antonio and Paolo Bregno, tomb of Doge Francesco Fóscari in the chancel (attributed; may actually be by Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino)
  • Lorenzo Bregno
    • tomb of Benedetto Pésaro above the sacristy door
    • tomb of Alvise Pasqualino on the west wall
  • Girolamo Campagna
    Girolamo Campagna

    Girolamo Campagna was a Northern Italian sculptor.He studied under Jacopo Sansovino and Danese Cattaneo, and completed many of the latter's works....
    , statuettes of St Anthony of Padua and St Agnes on the water stoups in the nave
  • Marco Cozzi, choir stalls in ritual choir
  • Donatello
    Donatello

    Donatello was a famous early Renaissance Italy artist and sculpture from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism....
    , figure of St John the Baptist in the first south choir chapel, Donatello's first documented work in Venice
  • Tullio Lombardo, tomb of Pietro Bernardo on the west wall (attributed; may actually be by Giovanni Buora)
  • Antonio Rizzo, tomb of Doge Niccolò Tron in the chancel
  • Jacopo Sansovino
    Jacopo Sansovino

    Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino , was an Italy sculptor and architect, known best for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity....
    , damaged figure of St John the Baptist on the font in the Corner Chapel
  • Titian
    Titian

    File:Tizian 090.jpg Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, born 1473/1490 , died 27 August 1576, better known as Titian , was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venice school of the Italian Renaissance....
    • Assumption
      Assumption of the Virgin (Titian)

      Assumption of the Virgin is a large oil painting by Titian. It is located in the Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, being the largest altarpiece in the city....
      , the altarpiece of the high altar and the largest altarpiece in Venice
    • Pesaro Madonna
      Pesaro Madonna

      The Pesaro Madonna is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Titian, commissioned by Jacopo Pesaro, whose family acquired in 1518 the chapel in the Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari Basilica in Venice for which the work was painted, and where it remains today....
       on the north wall of the nave
  • Paolo Veneziano
    Paolo Veneziano

    Paolo Veneziano, also Veneziano Paolo or Paolo da Venezia was a medieval painter from Venice.He was born to a family of artists, and worked together with his sons Marco, Luca, and Giovanni....
    , Doge Francesco Dandolo and His Wife Presented to the Virgin by SS Francis and Elizabeth in the sacristy
  • Alessandro Vittoria
    Alessandro Vittoria

    Alessandro Vittoria was an Italy Mannerism sculpture of the Venetian school, "one of the main representatives of the Venetian classical style" and rivalling Giambologna as the foremost sculptors of the late 16th century in Italy,....
    • figure of The Risen Christ on the west front
    • figure of St Jerome on the south wall of the nave
  • Alvise Vivarini
    Alvise Vivarini

    Alvise or Luigi Vivarini, , was an Italy Painting, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Like Bellini, he was part of a dynasty of painters....
    , St Ambrose and other Saints in the north transept chapel, his last work
  • Bartolomeo Vivarini
    • St. Mark Enthroned in the Capella Corner in the north transept
    • Madonna and Child with Saints, altarpiece in the third south choir chapel


Funerary monuments


  • Francesco Barbaro
    Francesco Barbaro

    Francesco Barbaro was an important humanist in Venice of the patrician Barbaro family.He was the son of Candiano Barbaro. He was a student at the University of Padua....
     (1390–1454) humanist and senator.
  • Pietro Bernardo (d.1538) (senator)
  • Antonio Canova
    Antonio Canova

    Antonio Canova was a Republic of Venice sculpture who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nudity flesh. The epitome of the neoclassicism style, his work marked a return to Classicism refinement after the theatrical excesses of Baroque sculpture....
     (only his heart is buried here; the tomb, realised by his disciples, is based on the drawing of Canova himself for an unrealised tomb for Titian
    Titian

    File:Tizian 090.jpg Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, born 1473/1490 , died 27 August 1576, better known as Titian , was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venice school of the Italian Renaissance....
    )
  • Federico Corner
  • Doge
    Doge of Venice

    The Doge was the chief magistrate and leader of the Republic of Venice for over a thousand years. Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy....
     Francesco Dandolo
    Francesco Dandolo

    Francesco Dandolo was the 52nd Doge of Venice. He ruled from 1329 to 1339. During his reign Venice began its policy of extending its territory on the Italian mainland....
     (in the chapter house)
  • Doge Francesco Foscari
    Francesco Foscari

    Francesco Foscari was Doges of Venice of Venice from 1423 to 1457, at the inception of the Italian Renaissance.Foscari, of an ancient noble family, served the Republic of Venice in numerous official capacities?as ambassador, president of the Forty, member of the Council of Ten, inquisitor, , avvogadore di comun?before he was elected...
     (d.1457)
  • Jacopo Marcello
  • Claudio Monteverdi
    Claudio Monteverdi

    Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi , was an Italian composer, viol, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the music of the Renaissance music to that of the Baroque music....
     one of the greatest composers of the 17th Century
  • Beato Pacifico (founder of the current church)
  • Alvise Pasqualino (d.1528) (Procurator of Venice)
  • Benedetto Pésaro (d.1503) (general)
  • Doge Giovanni Pésaro
  • Bishop Jacopo Pésaro (d.1547)
  • Paolo Savelli (condottiere) (the first Venetian monument to include an equestrian statue)
  • Titian
    Titian

    File:Tizian 090.jpg Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, born 1473/1490 , died 27 August 1576, better known as Titian , was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venice school of the Italian Renaissance....
     (d. 1576)
  • Melchiorre Trevisan (d.1500) (general)
  • Doge Niccolò Tron


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