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Grand Canal, Venice: Looking South-West from the Chiesadegli Scalzi
to the Fondamenta della Croce, with San Simeone Piccolo (on the left).
Current location: THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON.
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Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697 – 1768), better known as Canaletto (Italian: [kanaˈletto]), was an Italian painter of landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.
He was born in Venice as the son of the painter Bernardo Canal, hence his mononym, Canaletto ("little Canal"), and Artemisia Barbieri. Bernardo Bellotto was his nephew and pupil. Canaletto served his apprenticeship with his father and his brother. He began in his father's occupation, that of a theatrical scene painter. Canaletto was inspired by the Roman vedutista, Giovanni Paolo Pannini, and started painting the daily life of the city and its people.
San Simeone Piccolo (also called San Simeone e Giuda) is a Church in the sestiere of Santa Croce in Venice, Northern Italy. From across the Grand Canal, it faces the railroad terminal, serving as entry point for most visitors to the city.
Wittkower, in his monograph, acknowledges San Simeone is modelled on the Pantheon, with a temple-front pronaos; on the other hand, the peaked Dome recalls Longhena's more-embellished and prominent Santa Maria della Salute Church.
English: San Simeone Piccolo.
18th-Century. By architect Giovanni Antonio Scalfarotto
and the Scuola dei Tessitori di Panni di Lana,Venice.
Français: Église San Simeone Piccolo.
XVIIIe siècle par Giovanni Antonio Scalfarotto,
et la Scuola dei Tessitori di Panni di Lana, Venise.
Italiano: Chiesa di San Simeon Piccolo.
XVIII secolo dall'architetto Giovanni Antonio Scalfarotto
e Scuola dei Tessitori di Panni di Lana,Venezia.
Photo: 23 November 2012.
Source: Own work.
Author: Didier Descouens.
(Wikimedia Commons)
This was one of the last Churches built in Venice, in one of its poorer sestieri.
The following paragraph is on the Video,
available on YouTube at
The Crucifix is housed in the right-hand aedicula entering our Church. We don't know where it was before 1559, but, since this date, it has been housed outside the Church, over a stone Altar, between the two Portals of the building, next to the main entrance.
It was probably removed from there during (because of) the Revolution. The Church is the Saints Simon and Jude Church, in Venice (San Simeone Pìccolo), the very first Church that you can see in front of the railway station.
A Video of a Mass being said
at the Church of San Simeone Piccolo, Venice,
can also be seen at
The Pediment of the entrance has a Marble Relief, depicting "The Martyr-isation of the Saints" by Francesco Penso, known as "il Cabianca". Saint Simon was apparently the martyred cousin of Christ, martyred as a Jew by the Romans.
The Mass is celebrated according to the 1962 Roman Missal by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.
Canaletto (1697–1768).
Date: 1754.
Source: Nndb.com.
Author: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682–1754).
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