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Eighteenth-century backpackers must have thought they'd died and gone to heav-
en at Scuola Grande dei Carmini, with its lavish interiors by Giambattista Tiepolo
and Baldassare Longhena. Longhena designed the gold-leafed stucco stairway to
heaven, glimpsed upstairs in Tiepolo's nine-panel ceiling
Virgin in Glory
. The ad-
joining hostel room is bedecked in
boiserie
(wood carving). (
041 528 94 20;
www.scuolagrandecarmini.it
; Campo Santa Margherita 2617; adult/reduced €5/4;
11am-4pm;
Ca' Rezzonico)
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Chiesa dei Gesuati
CHURCH
There's year-round sunshine inside Giorgio Massari's baroque church. Luminous
skies surrounding St Dominic in Tiepolo's 1737-39 ceiling frescoes are so convin-
cing, you'll wonder whether you're wearing enough sunscreen. Tintoretto's sombre
1565
Crucifixion
shows Mary fainting with grief - but Sebastiano Ricci's cherubs
perform comical tumbling routines in 1730-33
Saints Peter and Thomas with
Pope Pius V
.
(Church of Santa Maria del Rosario;
www.chorusvenezia.org
;
Fondamenta delle Zattere
918; admission €3, or Chorus Pass;
10am-5pm Mon-Sat;
Zattere)
7
Magazzini del Sale
ART GALLERY
A recent retrofit designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano trans-
formed Venice's historical salt warehouses into Fondazione Vedova art galleries,
commemorating pioneering Venetian abstract painter Emilio Vedova. Fondazione
Vedova shows are often literally moving and rotating: powered by renewable en-
ergy sources, 10 robotic arms designed by Vedova and Piano move major modern
artworks in and out of storage slots. (
041 522 66 26;
www.fondazionevedova.org
; Zattere
266; donation suggested during shows;
during shows 10.30am-6pm Wed-Mon;
Zattere)
