Jesuiti Church in Venice

Jesuiti Church in Venice began to be built in 1657, commissioned by the Catholic Church. However, the construction was completed only in 1715, when the Venetians allowed the Jesuits to complete the building. Until then, the Free Republic did not allow the Order to build its own church in Venice.

The Jesuits, trying to match the luxurious facades of the churches of Venice, spared no expense. The Baroque facade of Fattoretto’s work is decorated with columns, cornices, carved angels and saints. The interior decoration is amazing, gold and white stucco, green and white marble are used in the decoration.

Theophile Gauthier said of the church that interior decorations "make the chapel of the Holy Virgin look like the boudoir of an operetta singer."

The church presents the canvas of Titian “Martyrdom of St. Lawrence”.

The facade of the church by Fatoretto is decorated with sculptures of the apostles and the Ascension on top of the Timpan, the most famous Venetian carvers of the XVIII century - Torretti, Kabianka, Baratta, etc. On the back wall, the tombstone of the Da Lesse family by Jacopo Sansovino, sculptures by carver Alessandro Vittoria, and inside the church, unusual for Venice draperies of white and green marble are used.