St. Bassus's Church
San Basso—Chiesa di San Basso—is a Baroque church that has been deconsecrated and now functions as a concert hall, so its role in Venice shifts from worship to music rather than disappearing. Venetian historian Flaminio Corner places its first erection in 1079, but the church repeatedly had to be rebuilt after fires. After another fire in 1105, it was rebuilt again, and in 1661 it took its best-known form to a design by Baldassarre Longhena—meaning today’s building is a reconstruction of an older, repeatedly damaged site. During the Napoleonic occupation, in 1806, the church was closed and sold to a private party. In 1847 it was ceded to the Basilica di San Marco, where it served to store marbles and sculptures until restoration for meetings and concerts in the 1890s. …
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