Church of San Moisè (Saint Moses)
Salizada San Moise, San Marco
Venice, September 2012
“An old church from the 8th Century, later restored several times. The final façade was only built in 1668 to a design by Alessandro Tremignon, paid for by the Fini family. San Moisè has a magnificent Baroque style and its massive overloaded façade full of statues and busts. One is particularly obvious: the big bust by the sculptor Heinrich Meyring depicting Vincenzo Fini, placed on an obelisk above the portal. The nineteenth-century English writer and art critic John Ruskin described it as the most ungainly church in Venice.” (Venice ant its Lagoon, World Heritage)
Art critics. Arrgh!
ReplyDeleteAlways fascinated with the details !
ReplyDeleteIt is always funny for me to hear Hebrew Bible heroes with the title Saint.
ReplyDeleteBut glad St. Moses has such an old church.
Ungainly it might be, I think it's beautiful!
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