Chiesa di Santa Maria di Nazareth
Santa Maria di Nazareth, also known locally as Chiesa degli Scalzi, is the Carmelite church of the Discalced Carmelites—“Scalzi” meaning *barefoot*. The building’s story is written in dates you can trace: the facade was financed by the aristocrat Gerolamo Cavazza and erected by Giuseppe Sardi from 1672 to 1680, in a Venetian Late Baroque manner. The church itself was built in the mid-17th century and completed in the last decades of that century, with designs associated to Baldassarre Longhena. Carved sculpture gives the outside its momentum, including statues of the Virgin and Child, St Catherine of Siena, and St Thomas Aquinas, attributed to Bernardo Falconi. Inside, the first chapel to the right holds St John of the Cross, and the chapels and altars display major devotional works by Tommaso Rues and Falconi as well. …
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