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San Fantin, Venice

Coordinates: 45°26′02″N 12°20′03″E / 45.433868°N 12.3341°E / 45.433868; 12.3341
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San Fantin
Religion
AffiliationRoman Catholic
ProvinceVenice
Location
LocationVenice, Italy
San Fantin, Venice is located in Venice
San Fantin, Venice
Shown within Venice
San Fantin, Venice is located in Italy
San Fantin, Venice
San Fantin, Venice (Italy)
Geographic coordinates45°26′02″N 12°20′03″E / 45.433868°N 12.3341°E / 45.433868; 12.3341
Architecture
Completed10th century

San Fantin (short for San Fantino) is a church in the sestiere of San Marco in Venice, Italy. It stands in front of the Fenice Theater and adjacent to the Ateneo Veneto (the former Scuola grande di San Fantin).

This parish church was first erected in the 10th century under the patronage of the patrician families from Barozzi, Aldicina, and Equilia. Reconstruction was undertaken by the Pisani family, who installed in the church a miraculous icon of the Virgin they had obtained from the East. The church of San Fantin by the 15th century came to be called the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie di San Fantino. Ten thousand ducats were willed for the church's reconstruction by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Zeno who died in 1501. A number of relics were transferred to this church including the body of Saint Marcellina and an Arm bone of the martyred Saint Trifone, Protector of Cattaro.[1]

Work on the church has been assigned or attributed to many architects, from Pietro Lombardo, Sebastiano Mariani, and later Jacopo Sansovino. Over the door of the sacristy is conserved the funeral urn of Vinciguerra Dandolo, a work by Tullio Lombardo. In 1908, the church was documented to hold two Piazzetta paintings: Liberation of Venice from the Plague and a Pieta. It had a Holy Family attributed to Giovanni Bellini, a Crucifixion by Lionardo Corona, and a Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth by Tintoretto.[2] These works have been relocated elsewhere.

Sources

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  1. ^ Notizie storiche delle Chiese e Monasteri di Venezia e di Torcello By Flaminius Corner, Padova 1758, p. 218.
  2. ^ A guide to the paintings of Venice: being an historical and critical account ... By Frank Tryon Charles (1908) page 172