DK Travel : Venice : Architecture

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Giannantonio Selva

In Venice, French-inspired Selva (1757–1819) is best remembered for the elegant Fenice theatre, though he also played a hand in works of the Napoleonic era including restructuring the Accademia Galleries.
Gondola Traghetto Point

Madonna statue perched on a pole in the Grand Canal.
Gondolier’s Shrine

A 1583 Madonna greets boats approaching the bridge.
Jacopo Sansovino

Trained in Florence under sculptor Andrea Sansovino, whose name he adopted in homage, Jacopo (1486–1570) fled to Venice to escape the sacking of Rome. Of his outstanding architecture are the Libreria and Zecca (see Piazza San Marco).
Junghans Factory

New York-style loft apartments have been created from an old clock factory – one of many conversion projects taking place on Giudecca.
Kitchen

This was always located on the ground floor for practical reasons.
Land Access

With private gondolas, this was relatively unimportant, hence a narrow alley.
Macello

The Neo-Classical former abattoir, its façade aptly decorated with bucranium (sculpted ox skulls), was restructured by the university when it was granted the premises in 1986.
Madonna dell’Orto

Huge canvases by devout parishioner Tintoretto enhance this graceful Gothic church set on a quiet back canal. Two 1546 masterpieces flank the high altar, the gruesome Last Judgment and the soaring grandeur of The Worship of the Golden Calf .
Magazzini del Sale

The lagoon’s salt pans largely contributed to the Republic’s trade monopoly and salt was stored in these cavernous 14th-century warehouses. The buildings now store boats.