Chiesa di Santa Maria della Visitazione
Santa Maria della Visitazione is Venice’s first Renaissance church, begun in 1494 and built by a small group of friars from Tuscany known as the Gesuati. They worked with comacine craftsmen, and the project named Francesco Mandello—of Lombard origin—as architect. The façade, set on the foundations of the Zattere ai Gesuati, was finished by Francesco Lurano da Castiglione in 1504. In 1669, the church passed to Dominican friars already established in Venice. They converted it into a library in 1750, transforming it around a collection of books donated by Apostolo Zeno—an arrangement tied to designs by Giorgio Massari, whose library cabinets survive in the spaces of the Accademia delle Belle Arti. …
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