Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli
Santa Maria dei Miracoli—often called the “marble church”—is one of Venice’s early Renaissance statements in colored stone. Built between 1481 and 1489, it was made by Pietro Lombardo to house a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary, and the plans expanded in 1484 to include a convent for nuns of St. Clare to the east. That convent connection was made by an enclosed walkway, later destroyed. The facade translates Renaissance ideas into Venetian materials: colored marble, exterior pilasters forming a kind of false colonnade, and a semicircular pediment. Inside, the church’s single nave is covered by a barrel vault, and restoration work brought the interior back into focus. From 1990 to 1997, Save Venice Inc. …
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