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Madonna dell'Orto
Madonna dell’Orto is the church that binds Tintoretto to Cannaregio: it was his home parish, it holds a number of his works, and it also contains his tomb. The building’s origins reach into the mid-14th century, when the Humiliati erected it under the direction of Tiberio da Parma, whose burial is in the interior. Its dedication changed with popular devotion. It was originally dedicated to St. Christopher, patron saint of travellers by ferry, but in the next century it became “Madonna dell’Orto” after a statue—commissioned for S. Maria Formosa and rejected—was brought from a nearby orchard (orto in Italian). …
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