San Simeone Profeta, also known as San Simeone Grande is a church in the
sestiere of Santa Croce in
Venice
Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are li ...
, Italy. The adjective ''Grande'' distinguishes this church from the
San Simeone Piccolo, which was smaller in size until its 18th-century reconstruction. The near palaces are
Palazzo Gradenigo
Palazzo Gradenigo is a palace in Venice, located in the Santa Croce district, near Palazzo Soranzo Cappello and the church of San Simeone Profeta, and overlooking Rio Marin.
History
The palace was built on a project by architect Domenico Margut ...
and
Palazzo Soranzo Cappello
Palazzo Soranzo Cappello is a palace in Venice, Italy located in the Santa Croce district, near Palazzo Gradenigo. The palace is currently occupied by the Superintendence of Archaeology, the Fine Arts and Landscape for the metropolitan area of V ...
.
History
left, Bell tower
This church was founded by 967 by the patrician families of Ghisi, Adoldi and Briosi. Originally a modest building of wood, after a fire in 1150, it was rebuilt in stone and made parish church. The Napoleonic government joined the parish to that of
San Simeone Piccolo
Description
The interior floor appears to have been raised after burials were pursued here during the
plague of 1630. The current church has a plain
neoclassical façade. The interior was rebuilt in the early eighteenth century by
Domenico Margutti. Inside, to the right of the entrance, is a ''Presentation at the Temple'' with portraits of donors by
Jacopo Palma the Younger. In the second altar of the left nave is a ''Last Supper'' by
Tintoretto
Jacopo Robusti (late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594), best known as Tintoretto ( ; , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized th ...
. The ''Annunciation'', previously attributed to Palma the Younger is today recognized as a work of the painter Blanc.
[Content in this edit is translated from the existing Italian Wikipedia article at :it:Chiesa di San Simeone Profeta; see its history for attribution.]
References
Church and Parish of San Simeon Profeta
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Simeone Profeta
Neoclassical architecture in Venice
Neoclassical church buildings in Italy