The Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary was destroyed by fire in 1867. The gilded wooden ceiling with its paintings by Tintoretto, Palma Giovane and Leandro Corona, as well as 34 other paintings displayed on the walls were lost. The restored chapel was reopened only in 1959. In the new carved ceiling of the nave, three oval paintings by Veronese, which were once in the deconsecrated church of the Umiltŕ on the Zattere, were inset: the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Assumption, and the Annunciation. The walls are decorated with many paintings from the 16th-17th centuries, among them another version of the Adoration of the Shepherds by Veronese. The ceiling of the chancel of the chapel contains works by Veronese coming from the deconsacrated church of San Nicolň in Lattuga.
Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 6 minutes): Franz Schubert: Ave Maria (Hail, Mary), Franz Liszt's transcription |
Summary of paintings by Paolo Veronese |
Religious themes |
1540s | 1550s | 1560s | 1570s | 1580s |
San Sebastiano | Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary |
Great decorations |
Banquet scenes | Villa Barbaro | Palazzo Ducale | Biblioteca Marciana |
Mythological and allegorical themes |
Historical and Old Testament themes |
Portraits |