The Chiesa di San Giuliano ( St Julian), commonly called San Zulian in the Venetian dialect, is a church in

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. San Zulian is in the parish of San Salvador. It is situated on the Merceria, the main shopping street of the city. Originally a structure from the 9th century; it underwent a number of reconstructions, including likely after the 1105 fire of the neighborhood. The façade was constructed in 1553-1554 by

Jacopo Sansovino Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (2 July 1486 – 27 November 1570) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect, best known for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. These are crucial works in the history of Venetian Renaissance arc ...

, and completed after his death in 1570 by

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. The flattened classical temple façade was paid for by the scholar Tommaso Rangone, whose bronze seated portrait appears above the door. In his hands, the physician Rangone holds sarsaparilla and guaiacum, two plants which he used to treat syphilis and

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. The reliefs also depict a map of the world as was known at his death. As befitting his broad-ranging interests in classic texts, the flanking inscriptions are in Latin (center), Greek (right) and Hebrew (left) text. The interior was also designed by Sansovino, and the church consecrated in 1580.

Main artworks

;Facade elements Venezia - Jacopo Sansovino, San Zulian (1555) - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto, 12-Aug-2007 - 12 - Iscrizione ebraica.jpg, ''Facade left.'' Dedication of Thomas Philologus - San Zulian - Venice 2016.jpg, ''Latin dedication Lintel.'' Venezia - Jacopo Sansovino, San Zulian (1555) - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto, 12-Aug-2007 - 14 - Iscrizione greca.jpg, ''Facade right.'' Venezia - Jacopo Sansovino, San Zulian (1555) - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto, 12-Aug-2007 - 13 - Iscrizione ebraica.jpg, ''Hebrew inscription.'' San Zulian (Venice) - Statue of Thomas Rangone by Jacopo Sansovino.jpg, ''Statue of Tomas Rangone'' Venezia - Jacopo Sansovino, San Zulian (1555) - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto, 12-Aug-2007 - 15 - Iscrizione greca.jpg, ''Greek inscription.'' ; Interior * Girolamo Campagna (

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figures of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene and a marble altar panel in the chapel to the left of the high altar) *

Palma the Younger Iacopo Negretti (1548/50 – 14 October 1628), best known as Jacopo or Giacomo Palma il Giovane or simply Palma Giovane ("Young Palma"), was an Italian painter from Venice and a notable exponent of the Venetian school. After Tintoretto's death ...

(''St Julian in Glory'' on the central panel of the ceiling) *

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...

(''Pietà with SS Roch, Jerome and Mark'' on the south wall) * The upper walls are painted by

Leonardo Corona Leonardo Corona (1561–1605) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Venice. Born in Murano. For the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice, he painted an ''Annunciation''; while for Santo Stefano, he painted an ...

Giovanni Fiammingo Jan Steven van Calcar ( it, Giovanni da Calcar, la, Ioannes Stephanus Calcarensis) (c. 1499–1546) was a German-born Italian painter. Life Calcar was born in the Duchy of Cleves sometime between 1499 and 1510. Vasari refers to him several tim ...

, and Palma. * Organ from 1764 opus 12 by Gaetano Callido Chiesa di San Zulian - Soffitto.jpg, St Julian in Glory''

Chiesa di San Zulian - Organo.jpg, Organ by Gaetano Callido

External links

San Zulian blogspot.
*''Works of Art Discovered in Venice'', Alethea Wiel. The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (1909) 15(78):p. 368-9. (On works of art found in the rafters of San Zulian). {{DEFAULTSORT:Zulian Roman Catholic churches completed in 1570 16th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Jacopo Sansovino buildings Roman Catholic churches in Venice 1570 establishments in Italy