Description
The Church and Cemetery of San Michele take up an island in the lagoon between Venice and Murano: the city's cemetery, still in use, with an early Renaissance church and the graves of famous artists.
The church of San Michele in Isola, built between 1468 and 1479, is Mauro Codussi's first work in Venice, with a gleaming white facade of Istrian stone. Next to it is the hexagonal Cappella Emiliana, with its white dome.
Buried in the cemetery are Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Diaghilev, Ezra Pound and Joseph Brodsky, as well as the physicist Christian Doppler and the composer Luigi Nono.
There were originally two islands, San Michele and San Cristoforo: the cemetery was created here in Napoleonic times, and between 1835 and 1839 the canal between them was filled in. In the monastery, in the 15th century, Fra Mauro drew his famous map of the world.
The church of San Michele in Isola, built between 1468 and 1479, is Mauro Codussi's first work in Venice, with a gleaming white facade of Istrian stone. Next to it is the hexagonal Cappella Emiliana, with its white dome.
Buried in the cemetery are Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Diaghilev, Ezra Pound and Joseph Brodsky, as well as the physicist Christian Doppler and the composer Luigi Nono.
There were originally two islands, San Michele and San Cristoforo: the cemetery was created here in Napoleonic times, and between 1835 and 1839 the canal between them was filled in. In the monastery, in the 15th century, Fra Mauro drew his famous map of the world.