VENEZIA - Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute (VERSIONE CORTA)

LONG VERSION video link:    • VENEZIA - Basilica di Santa Maria della Sa...   Santa Maria della Salute is a basilica in Venice erected in the Punta della Dogana area that was designed by Baldassare Longhena with attention to the models of Palladio, it is one of the best expressions of Venetian Baroque architecture. Its construction represents an ex voto to the Madonna by the Venetians for the liberation from the plague which between 1630 and 1631 decimated the population, as had happened previously for the church of the Redentore. The plague was brought by an ambassador of the Duke of Mantua Carlo I Gonzaga Nevers, who was interned in the Lazzaretto Vecchio, but it was enough for him to come into contact with a carpenter to infect the city. On October 26 in Piazza San Marco the Doge Nicolò Contarini, the clergy and the people gathered to pray. When the plague ended 80,000 Venetians had died, and 600,000 in the territory of the Serenissima. Among the dead, the doge and the patriarch. The central body is octagonal in shape on which rests a large hemispherical dome, then surrounded by six minor chapels. The refined spiral scrolls stabilized by statues act as buttresses for the dome, on whose lantern stands the statue of the Virgin. The main facade was decorated by the sculptor Tommaso Rues with marble statues of the four evangelists. On the altar of the Descent of the Holy Spirit there is the "Descent of the Holy Spirit" by Tiziano Vecelio. Numerous other works by Titian as well as "The Wedding at Cana", a large canvas by Tintoretto (1561), and works by other important artists: Alessandro Varotari known as "il Padovanino", Pietro Liberi, Giuseppe Porta known as "il Salviati", Giovanni Battista Salvi known as "il Sassoferrato", Palma the Younger, Marco d'Oggiono enrich the sacristy. The presbytery and the main altar designed by Longhena himself dominate everything. The sculptural group on the altar represents a Madonna with child, representing the Health that defends Venice from the plague. It is the work of a Flemish sculptor very active in Venice, whose name is usually rendered in Giusto Le Court or Jouste de Corte born in Ypres in 1627 and died in Venice in 1679. The altar houses a Byzantine icon, the Madonna della Salute or Mesopanditissa, which comes from the island of Crete and was brought to Venice by Francesco Morosini in 1670 when they had to give the island to the Turks. Wikipedia source: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilic... Music by Whitesand - Title: Emerald Moon Website - https://whitesandcomposer.com/ Support making these tracks -   / whitesand   Buy My Music - https://whitesand.bandcamp.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3GXun... Filmed with SONY RX10M3 in 4K.