San Pantalon
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The Chiesa di San Pantaleone Martire, known as San Pantalon in the Venetian dialect, is a church in Venice
, northern Italy
. It is situated on the Campo San Pantalon in Venice
and is dedicated to Saint Pantaleon
.
San Pantalon is particularly well-known for its immense ceiling painting, depicting The Martyrdom and Apotheosis of St Pantalon. It was painted on canvas by Gian Antonio Fumiani between 1680 and 1704, when he fell to his death from the scaffolding.
Other notable works include Coronation of the Virgin by Antonio Vivarini
and Giovanni d'Alemagna
in the Chapel of the Holy Nail and St Pantalon healing a Boy, the last work by Veronese
, originally commissioned for the high altar.
San Pantalon is a parish church of the Vicariate of San Polo-Santa Croce-Dorsoduro.
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
, northern Italy
Italy
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. It is situated on the Campo San Pantalon in Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
and is dedicated to Saint Pantaleon
Saint Pantaleon
Saint Pantaleon , counted in the West among the late-medieval Fourteen Holy Helpers and in the East as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers, was a martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletian persecution of 303 AD...
.
San Pantalon is particularly well-known for its immense ceiling painting, depicting The Martyrdom and Apotheosis of St Pantalon. It was painted on canvas by Gian Antonio Fumiani between 1680 and 1704, when he fell to his death from the scaffolding.
Other notable works include Coronation of the Virgin by Antonio Vivarini
Antonio Vivarini
Antonio Vivarini was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance-late Gothic period, who worked mostly in the Republic of Venice...
and Giovanni d'Alemagna
Giovanni d'Alemagna
Giovanni d'Alemagna was a German painter, active in Italy, who collaborated with his brother-in-law Antonio Vivarini on various important religious paintings in Venice and Padua....
in the Chapel of the Holy Nail and St Pantalon healing a Boy, the last work by Veronese
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Veronese was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi...
, originally commissioned for the high altar.
San Pantalon is a parish church of the Vicariate of San Polo-Santa Croce-Dorsoduro.