Santa Maria dei Miracoli Church

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title	Santa Maria dei Miracoli Church
category	church
description
The church of Miracles is a very unique church, from a historical-artistic point of view, aswell as, for the Venetians, from a “sentimental” point of view. Unlike all other churches in the city, the church of Miracles was founded recently, designed, built and decorated by a single artist, as shown by the several overlapping of styles. It is a masterpiece of Peter Lombardo and the architecture recalls to the first Venetian Renaissance, similar in unity to an extraordinary carved casket and covered with coloured marble. It was built between 1481 and 1489 to preserve an image of the Virgin and Child between two Saints which had been called miraculous. The facade leads to a Florentine Renaissance style, but the colour decoration responds well to the typical venetian taste. The interior, a single nave with a raised presbytery, is decorated even more sumptuously with sculpted marble.
link	Chorus Venezia