The Chiesa di Santo Stefano (Church of St. Stephen) is a large

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church at the northern end of the Campo Santo Stefano in the

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of San Marco,

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, Italy.

History

It was founded in the 13th century, rebuilt in the 14th century and altered again early in the 15th century, when the fine gothic doorway and ship's keel roof were added. The tall interior is also Gothic in style and has three

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s. Santo Stefano is parish church of one of the parishes in the Vicariate of San Marco-Castello. The other churches of the parish are San Samuele, San Maurizio, San Vidal and the Oratorio di San Angelo degli Zoppi. File:Campanile of Santo Stefano (Venice).jpg, Campanile of Santo Stefano Venice, seen from the

Campo Sant'Angelo Campo Sant'Angelo, also known as Campo Sant'Anzolo, is a city square in the sestiere of San Marco, in the city of Venice, Italy. The piazza is asymmetric, and bounded on the South-West by the Rio di San Anzolo, across which stands the former mon ...

. File:Santo Stefano (Venice) Campaniles.jpg, Leaning campanile, and empty

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File:Portal of Santo Stefano (Venice).jpg, Gothic portal attributed to

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. File:Ponte sotto San Stefano (Venice).jpg, ''Ponte sotto San Stefano'' File:2012 Cloister - Former convent of Santo Stefano (Venice).jpg, Former convent of Santo Stefano, in Venice, The main cloister, East exposure.

Works of art

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commemorating Giovanni Falier in the

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Pietro Lombardo Monument of the Doge Pietro Mocenigo 1481 :''Pietro Lombardo is also the Italian version of the name of the theologian Peter Lombard.'' Pietro Lombardo (1435–1515) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect; born in Carona (Ticino), he ...

(tomb of Giacomo Surian) *

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(two marble statuettes in the

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(attributed)) *

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(''The Agony in the Garden'', ''The Last Supper'' and ''The Washing of the Disciples' Feet'', all in the sacristy) *

Paolo Veneziano Paolo Veneziano, also Veneziano Paolo or Paolo da Venezia (active by 1333, died after 1358) was a 14th-century painter from Venice, the "founder of the Venetian school (art), Venetian School" of painting, probably active between about 1321 and 13 ...

(painted

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in the sacristy) *

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Funerary monuments

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Andrea Contarini Andrea Contarini was the doge of Venice, 60th doge of Venice from 1367 until his death on 5 June 1382. He served as doge during the War of Chioggia, which was fought between the Venetian Republic and the Republic of Genoa. Contarini was noted ...

(d.1382) * Giovanni Falier * Doge

Francesco Morosini Francesco Morosini (26 February 1619 – 16 January 1694) was the Doge of Venice from 1688 to 1694, at the height of the Great Turkish War. He was one of the many Doges and generals produced by the Venetian noble Morosini family.Encyclopæd ...

* Giacomo Surian *

Giovanni Gabrieli Giovanni Gabrieli (/1557 – 12 August 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School (music), Venetian School, at the t ...

(d. 1612) Nave of Santo Stefano (Venice).jpg, Interior Domenico Contarini's mausoleum (Venice).jpg, Domenico Contarini's mausoleum Antonio Zorzi - Tomb in Santo Stefano in Venice.jpg, Antonio Zorzi - Tomb Giacomo Surian's grave (Venice).jpg, Giacomo Surian's grave Jacopo Tintoretto - The Last Supper - WGA22613.jpg, The Last Supper

Jacopo 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 the ...

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