In 1560 Palladio began a series of works in the city of Venice. His refectory (1560-63) at the Benedictine monastery of S Giorgio Maggiore on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore is in every sense a monumental testimony to Palladio's urge to create a style in the manner of Classical antiquity that was both severe and imposing. The unusually high-placed windows, like the dimensions of other individual parts from the portal to the cornice around the building, celebrate architectural form as an end in itself, almost regardless of the building's function. The success of this work resulted in Palladio's commission (1564) to rebuild the monastery church of San Giorgio Maggiore. Another commission in Venice, although never fully realized, was the monastery of Santa Maria della Carità (begun 1560; partly destroyed 1630).

Although Palladio never succeeded in producing a secular building in Venice, nor in having his costly plan to reconstruct the Rialto Bridge adopted, he was nevertheless engaged for further ecclesiastical works there, including a new façade (1562-c. 1570) for San Francesco della Vigna. Here, he achieved a unified composition by employing a variety of scales, a technique he later adopted in the Palazzo Valmarana.

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	San Giorgio Maggiore: Façade 1566 Photo Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice	910*1050 True Color 118 Kb
	San Giorgio Maggiore: Exterior view 1566 Photo Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice	1138*1300 True Color 192 Kb
	San Giorgio Maggiore: Exterior view 1566 Photo Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice	1048*1200 True Color 151 Kb
	San Giorgio Maggiore: Façade 1566 Photo Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice	1200*1215 True Color 223 Kb
	Benedictine Monastery: General view 1566 Photo Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice	1028*600 True Color 85 Kb
	Benedictine Monastery: General view 1566 Photo Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice	1105*800 True Color 178 Kb
	Benedictine Monastery: General view 1566 Photo Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice	1217*694 True Color 97 Kb
	San Giorgio Maggiore: Interior 1566 Photo Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice	1405*1000 True Color 183 Kb
	San Giorgio Maggiore: Interior 1566 Photo Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice	1200*1288 True Color 224 Kb
	Il Redentore: Façade begun 1577 Photo Canale della Giudecca, Venice	955*1050 True Color 136 Kb
	Il Redentore: Façade begun 1577 Photo Canale della Giudecca, Venice	935*1065 True Color 204 Kb
	Il Redentore: Interior begun 1577 Photo Canale della Giudecca, Venice	1080*996 True Color 208 Kb
	Il Redentore: Interior begun 1577 Photo Canale della Giudecca, Venice	1025*1300 True Color 187 Kb
	Il Redentore: Interior begun 1577 Photo Canale della Giudecca, Venice	1448*1000 True Color 213 Kb
	San Francesco della Vigna: Façade 1562 Photo Campo San Francesco della Vigna, Venice	1370*1700 True Color 281 Kb
	Santa Maria della Presentazione: Façade 1576-88 Photo Isola Giudecca, Venice	1400*1024 True Color 201 Kb