Religious site
Chiesa di San Maurizio
San Maurizio, a Neoclassical Catholic church in Venice, has shifted from worship to sound. A church stood on this site before its first major reconstruction in the 16th century, and the building you see today took shape through later work—especially a reconstruction in 1806 by Giannantonio Selva, the architect associated with La Fenice. Selva’s design also defines the church’s present form, and the site once included a studio connected to a young Antonio Canova, placing sculpture and music within the same Venetian streetscape. Today the space functions as the Museo della Musica, focused on Baroque Venice. …
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