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Chiesa del Redentore, Venice. (Photo by Hans A. Rosbach)
The church of Il Redentore in Venice, built by Andrea Palladio in 1577. the bridge pictures is only erected for the late July Festa del Redentore, celebrating the lifting of a plague. (Photo by Aisano)Certainly his gorgeously precise pre-neoclassical "Palladian" style became an enormous influence on architects from Christopher Wren (think: London's St. Paul's Cathedral) to Thomas Jefferson (think: Monticello in Virginia; also, all of Washington, DC).
One of Palladio's greatest masterpieces is Venice's Il Redentore, commissioned by the city in thanks for being delivered from the great plague of 1575–77, which claimed over a quarter of the population (some 46,000 people).
Baptism of Christ (1561), by Paolo Veronese.The interior is done in grand, austere, painstakingly classical Palladian style.
The artworks tend to be workshop pieces (from the studios or schools, but not the actual brushes, of Tintoretto and Veronese), but there is a fine Baptism of Christ by Veronese himself in the sacristy.
Also in the sacristy are Alvise Vivarini's good Adoration and Angels alongside works by Jacopo da Bassano and Palma il Giovane, who also did the Deposition over the right aisle's third chapel.
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