Description
The Church of San Sebastiano is a Renaissance church in the Dorsoduro sestiere, plain outside and astonishing inside: it is Paolo Veronese's church, where for years he painted almost every surface and where he chose to be buried.
Veronese decorated the sacristy ceiling, the nave, the frieze, the chancel, the high altar and even the organ shutters. Don't miss the three ceiling canvases with the story of Esther, among them the Triumph of Mordecai, and the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. There is also a Saint Nicholas by Titian.
Veronese's tomb is near the organ, and next to him lies his brother Benedetto Caliari, who worked with him. The church, designed by Scarpagnino and finished in 1548, grew out of a hospice of Hieronymite friars, and tradition links it to the thanks of the people spared by the plague of 1464.
Veronese decorated the sacristy ceiling, the nave, the frieze, the chancel, the high altar and even the organ shutters. Don't miss the three ceiling canvases with the story of Esther, among them the Triumph of Mordecai, and the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. There is also a Saint Nicholas by Titian.
Veronese's tomb is near the organ, and next to him lies his brother Benedetto Caliari, who worked with him. The church, designed by Scarpagnino and finished in 1548, grew out of a hospice of Hieronymite friars, and tradition links it to the thanks of the people spared by the plague of 1464.