Venice is a piece of digital artwork by Andrzej Szczerski which was uploaded on August 5th, 2015.
Title
Venice
Artist
Andrzej Szczerski
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Drawing
Description
Santa Maria della Salute,Venice
Vector Art (illustrator and photoshop)
Santa Maria della Salute (English: Saint Mary of Health), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy.
It stands on the narrow finger of Punta della Dogana, between the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal, at the Bacino di San Marco, making the church visible when entering the Piazza San Marco from the water. The Salute is part of the parish of the Gesuati and is the most recent of the so-called plague-churches.
In 1630, Venice experienced an unusually devastating outbreak of the plague. As a votive offering for the city's deliverance from the pestilence, the Republic of Venice vowed to build and dedicate a church to Our Lady of Health (or of Deliverance, Italian: Salute). The church was designed in the then fashionable baroque style by Baldassare Longhena, who studied under the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi. Construction began in 1631. Most of the objects of art housed in the church bear references to the Black Death.
The dome of the Salute was an important addition to the Venice skyline and soon became emblematic of the city, inspiring artists like Canaletto, J. M. W. Turner, John Singer Sargent, and Francesco Guardi.
Uploaded
August 5th, 2015
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Comments (31)
Reynold Jay
Wow factor for this gem...Looks like a lot hours went into this Andrzej! Beautiful and well done. FAVORITE!
Gabriella Weninger - David
Ohhh WOW.... What a AWESOME work, so wonderful scene and so GORGEOUS Image Andrzej!
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