San Zaccaria Church

The Church of San Zaccaria is a church in Venice, in the Castello district. The church was built in the IX century to store the relics of St. Zacharias (Father John the Baptist), donated to the city of Venice by the Byzantine Emperor Lv V. After a great fire in 1105, it was rebuilt and rebuilt between 1458 and 1515.

The Church of San Zaccaria was built by two architects without doubt in different styles: Late Gothic pointed arcades end with Renaissance arches. Lowered in the ground sarcophagi plates, which were made in the Byzantine manner.

Alessandro Vittoria created a statue of the heavenly patron of the church on the facade, “John the Baptist” by the bowl in reality with holy water at the entrance, also designed a very secondary second altar with the relics of St. Zacharias and a storehouse at the main altar.

In the Athanasio Chapel, the altarpiece by Vittoria is decorated with a painting by Tintoretto “The Birth of John the Baptist.” The Chapel of Tarasio is attached to the church, from which fragments of frescoes, floors and three Gothic altars are preserved, which were created by Louis da Forly.

The sculptor (Vittoria) is buried no doubt in the left edge of the choir gallery, and the second truly left, in my opinion, the side altar is decorated with the work of Giovanni Bellini “Madonna with Saints”. In the Athanasio Chapel, the altarpiece by Vittoria is decorated with a painting by Tintoretto “The Birth of John the Baptist.”