Italian veduta painter Giacomo Guardi composed this impressive view of the San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. The 16th-century Benedictine church was designed by the famed architect Andrea Palladio on ...

San Giorgio is a “spolia” church, in which many of the basic architectural elements were reused from older buildings. Spolia is Latin for spoils, familiar in English usage from the phrase ...

This charming and atmospheric View of San Giorgio Maggiore was painted by Guardi late in his career. The dramatic setting of the church allowed him the opportunity to depict it on an intimate scale, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Along with gondoliers and pigeons in St Mark's Square, the church of San Giorgio Maggiore is one of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Along with gondoliers and pigeons in St Mark's Square, the church of San Giorgio Maggiore is one of ...

Andrea Guerra, Michael Haggerty, Movable Façades: Palladio's Plan for the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice and Its Successive Vicissitudes, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, ...

A monastery was built on the island in the eighth century, but the present church building dates “only” to 1566 and was designed by Andrea Palladio, of Palladian architecture fame.