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San Rocco, Venice

The Church of Saint Roch is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Roch in Venice, northern Italy. It was built between 1489 and 1508 by Bartolomeo Bon the Younger, but was substantially altered in 1725. The façade dates from 1765 to 1771, and was designed by Bernardino Maccarucci. The church is one of the Plague-churches built in Venice.

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Exterior The facade is decorated within years years 1765–1769 in collaboration with major Venetian sculptors of its time. On the semicircular tympanum stands the statue of Saint Roch by Giuseppe Bernardi. On the sides are statues of Saint Gerolamo Emiliani and Blessed Pietro Acotanto. In the second register is a relief of Saint Roch healing the plague stricken by Giovanni Morlaiter. In the niches on the sides are statues of Saints Lorenzo Giustiniani and Gregorio Barbarigo by Antonio Gai. In the first register flanking the main entrance are Saints Gerardo Sagredo and Pietro Orseolo by Giovanni Marchiori. The main portal has a bronze copy relief of the Glory of Saint Roch by Malchiori. The marble original is inside the church. San Rocco (Venice) - San Rocco healing the plague victims by Giovanni Morlaiter.jpg|San Rocco heals the victims of the plague by Giovanni Maria Morlaiter San Rocco (Venice) - Statue of Saint Gerard of Csanád.jpg|Saint Gerardo Sagredo San Rocco (Venice) - Statue of Saint Gregorio Barbarigo.jpg|Saint Gregorio Barbarigo San Rocco (Venice) - Statue of Saint Lawrence Giustiniani.jpg|Saint Lorenzo Giustiniani San Rocco (Venice) - Statue of Saint Peter Orseolo.jpg|Saint Pietro Orseolo Interior The church interior is notable for its Tintoretto paintings including: • Annunciation and St Roch presented to the Pope on west wall. • St. Roch taken to Prison (attributed) and The Pool of Bethesda on south wall of the nave. • St. Roch curing the plague victims, St. Roch comforted by an Angel, St. Roch in Solitude and St. Roch healing the Animals (attributed) in chancel. • St. Christopher and St Martin on Horseback by Pordenone hang on north wall of the nave. Also present are a monument to Pellegrino Baselli Grillo (1517) and a statue of St. Roch by Bartolomeo Bon. San Rocco Venezia (Interno).jpg|Interno San Rocco Venezia (Interno) - Cappella maggiore.jpg| Altar by Venturino Fantoni San Rocco Venezia (Interno) - Cappella maggiore - Soffitto.jpg|Dome and the apse were decorated by Il Pordenone San Rocco Venezia (Interno) - Organo di Gaetano Callido.jpg|Organ San Rocco Venezia (Interno) - Cristo scaccia i mercanti dal tempio di Giovanni Antonio Fumiani.jpg|Christ expels the merchants from the temple" of Fumianidi ==Notes==
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