Travel Reference
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Sights
1 Chiesa della Madonna dell'Orto
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This 1365 brick Gothic cathedral was the parish church of Renaissance master
Tintoretto, who is buried here. Two of his finest works are in the apse: Presenta-
tion of the Virgin in the Temple, with starstruck angels and mortals vying for
glimpses of Mary, and his 1546 Last Judgment, where an angel rescues one last
soul from the ultimate acqua alta . (Campo della Madonna dell'Orto 3520; admission €3, or
Chorus Pass;
10am-5pm Mon-Sat;
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Madonna dell'Orto)
2 Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli
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When Nicolò di Pietro's Madonna icon started miraculously weeping in its outdoor
shrine around 1480, crowd control became impossible. With pooled resources and
marble scavenged from San Marco slag-heaps, neighbours built this chapel (1481-
89) to house the painting. Pietro and Tullio Lombardo's design dropped grandiose
Gothic in favour of human-scale harmonies, introducing Renaissance architecture
to Venice. (Campo dei Miracoli 6074; admission €3, or with Chorus Pass;
10am-5pm Mon-Sat;
Fondamenta Nuove)
Understand
Venetian Jewish History
Renaissance in the Ghetto
During the 14th- to 16th-century Italian Renaissance, pragmatic Venice granted Jew-
ish communities the right to practise certain professions key to the city's livelihood, in-
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