Chiesa del Redentore
The Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore—Il Redentore—was commissioned as a votive church, built to thank God for Venice’s deliverance from a devastating plague outbreak in 1575–1576, when roughly 46,000 people died, about 25–30% of the city’s population. The Republic’s Senate turned to Andrea Palladio, asking for a square plan, but he instead created a single-nave church with three chapels on each side. Its waterfront position on the Canale della Giudecca let Palladio frame the facade with a Rome-inspired sensibility, heightened by a wide plinth reached by 15 steps—an ascent meant to be gradual, reinforcing devotion through the act of climbing. The cornerstone was laid by the Patriarch of Venice, Giovanni Trevisan, on 3 May 1577, and the church was consecrated in 1592. …
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