Santissimo Redentore Church

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title	Santissimo Redentore Church
category	church
description
The Church of the Redentore is one of the most famous and venerated churches in Venice and the centrepiece of this city’s most popular feasts (celebrated on the third Sunday of July). It was set up on the initiative of the Senate in 1577 to honour a vow made during the terrible plague of 1575-77. The work, commissioned to Andrea Palladio, is one of the greatest architectural masterpieces of the Renaissance and was finished, after the death of the notorious architect, by his foreman Antonio da Ponte, who faithfully respected the Palladian project. The facade, which emanates charm, has the typical Palladian composition, with broken pediments and half columns united by a horizontal band. The interior, plastered in white, has the typical simplicity of the classical temples.
link	Chorus Venezia