The Churches of Venice


A detail from the Merian map of 1635 showing Corpus Domini and Santa Lucia on the north bank of the Grand Canal and Santa Croce and the old church of San Simeon on the south bank.
Corpus Domini
Established 1393 by the abbess Lucia Tiepolo, then the abbess of the declining convent of Sant'Apostolo in lagoon, who had a vision that she must set up a new church in Venice. Within six years she had found some land on the northwest tip of the city, and obtained funds from a nobleman called Francesco Rabia, and built a small church. The convent was initially just a dormitory off the church, but soon afterwards two devout young girls, Isabetta and Andreola Tommasini had visions that they should build a church in the same place. Their confessor, Giovanni Dominici, had the same vision and helped them to obtain papal permission. Lucia Tiepolo agreed to become the first priora of the convent they now built, and to change the order from Benedictine to Dominican. The girls' dowries were used for the construction of a new church and a substantial convent that was consecrated in 1394. The complex was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1440, with reconsecration in 1444. The body of Saint Lucy was put in Corpus Domini during the 1400s, while they were building her own church nearby. But it was there so long that the nuns began to consider it their own and were very unhappy about letting it go. So much so that in 1476 a little commando unit of nuns stole the body from the monastery of Santa Lucia and brought it back, hiding it under some stairs. Even a delegation from the Council of Ten did not succeed in getting the ninja nuns to reveal where the body was. So they ordered the doors and windows of Corpus Domini to be walled up until they let their hostage out. When the builders arrived, the nuns gave up the body. The Convent of the Penitential Sisters of Saint Dominic in Venice, the church, and the kitchen gardens were demolished in 1810 to make way for the railway company's offices. Two altars, with paintings by Visentini, were salvaged and taken to San Pietro di Castello, but reassembled poorly and unrecognisably. A façade model and the print (right) are in the Correr museum. The Canaletto (above right) has Corpus Domini on the left and the also-demolished church of Santa Croce on the right.
Crociferi

The Gesuiti church was built on the site of this church. A Tintoretto Assumption from the Crociferi is now in the Gesuiti. The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple by him is now in the Accademia. Veronese's Adoration of the Shepherds in now in San Zanipolo.
Santa Lucia
History There had been a church on this site since 1192, probably. In 1280 the remains of St Lucy were brought here from San Giorgio Maggiore. Restored in 1343 it later passed from the Dominicans to Augustinian nuns who added a convent. Disputes between the nuns here and at Corpus Domini over St Lucy's remains (see below) were finally resolved with Santa Lucia's Augustinians getting the remains and the Corpus Domini Dominicans getting 40 gold ducats. Original gothic church (visible on De Barbari's map) rebuilt 1580-90 by Leonardo Mocinego with a chapel for his family by Palladio. This church had a classical façade (see print right). The nuns were removed in 1806 and St Lucy's remains were acquired by the church of San Geremia. Complex demolished during 1840s by the Austrians to make way for the railway station of the same name, itself replaced by the current station in 1954. Campanile Tower in De Barbari map replaced with two small towers during 1580s rebuilding. The church in art Façade visible to right of centre in Marieschi's The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo and the Scalzi, of around 1742. Also The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo and Santa Lucia of 1780 by Guardi.
Santa Maria Nova
History Built around 971, by the Borselli familly. Originally dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption, it became known as Santa Maria Nova in the 13th Century. The church fell down in 1535, was rebuilt, and then restored in the 18th Century, with the façade finished by Giovanni Vettori in 1760. Closed in 1808 and then used as a warehouse, its art and ornaments were dispersed and the remains of those buried here taken to the ossuary island of Sant'Ariano. These remains included those of the philosopher Fortunio Spira, the Wocowich-Lazzari family and Doge Nicolo Contarini. Conte Widman bought some bits of the campanile, which had been rebuilt after collapsing in 1488 and was demolished in 1839, for use in some houses he was building in Casselleria. The church itself was demolished in 1852. The church in art The Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli and the apse of Santa Maria Nuova by Bernardo Bellotto (right). Detail from the the Ughi map of 1729.

This detail from the map of 1635 shows the three churches demolished to make way for the Giardini Pubblici. In the foreground Sant'Antonio, above it to the left is the domed San Nicolò. Then in front of the walls of the Arsenale (top left) is San Domenico on this side of the now filled-in canal.
Sant'Antonio di Castello
Built from 1346, the first stone was laid by the founder, Fra Giotto degli Abbati, a Florentine nobleman and prior of the Canons of St Anthony. Monastery and church passed to the Laterans until they were suppressed in 1768. One of the three churches demolished in 1808 by Napoleon to make way for the public gardens, this one seems to have been the greatest loss. Two of the church's bells were sold to help pay for the under funded project and materials from the church used towards one building, later demolished to make way for the Biennale buildings later in the 19th Century. The Doric arch of the Lando chapel of the church (designed by Sanmicheli) still stands forlornly in the Giardini Pubblici (see below right) and is all that's left of the fabric of the three demolished churches. In Sir Francis Palgrave's Hand-book for Travellers in Northern Italy of 1842, the author wrote that the creation of the Giardini Pubblici 'afforded an excuse for pulling down a few churches which in itself was a recommendation for the French.' The church in art The Accademia has a Veneziano polyptych and Apparition of the Martyrs of Mount Ararat (below right) by Carpaccio which depicts the interior of the church before his own painting of the Crucifixion and Glorification of the ten thousand Martyrs of Mount Ararat (also in the Accademia) was installed over the Ottoboni altar.
San Domenico
Monastery and church founded in 1312. Restored 1506 and 1536. After the Arsenale fire of 1569 the complex was rebuilt in 1586 and the church consecrated in 1609. The court of the Inquisition was held here until 1560 when it moved to the Frari. Prohibited books that had accumulated were burnt on the 29th April and the ashes tipped into the canal that is now the Via Garibaldi. Given to Austrian navy in 1807 and soon after demolished, it being one of the three churches demolished to make way for the Giardini Pubblici, San Domenico faced the (still standing) church of San Francesco di Paula across a canal that was filled in to make the Via Garibaldi. A bridge named after San Domenico was lost too. The bridge and San Bartolomeo (the previous church on the site of San Franceso di Paola) are also visible in the Barbari map of 1500 (see below) beyond San Domenico in the top left-hand corner. The former (early 15th Century, Gothic) entrance to the monastery is to be found on the south side of the Via Garibaldi at no. 1310 (see right).
Detail from the the Ughi map of 1729
San Nicolò
One of the three churches demolished by Napoleon to make way for the Giardini Pubblici, but is said to have fallen into disuse as a church long before. It is the church in the foreground (right).
San Daniele Profeta
Founded on the island of San Daniele (see top left in detail from Ughi map of 1729 below) in 820 by the Bragadin family. Given in 1138 to Manfredo, a Cistercian, and he built a monastery, consecrated in 1219. In 1437 the Augustinian nuns from Sant'Andrea de Zirada moved here. The church had a nave and two aisles with rectangular apses. Their were twelve columns of red Verona marble and nine alters. The complex became a French barracks in 1806 and an Austrian one in 1815. When the church was demolished in 1839 the remaining buildings became the college of the Royal Imperial Navy. What's left is still in use as a barracks. Lost art Bas relief of Daniel in the Lions' Den and a 1469 carving of the saint now at the Ca'Bragadin (Bigaglia) in Barbaria de le Tole. Two female saints by Alvise Vivarini and Daniel in the Lions' Den by Pietro da Cortona in the Accademia.		Detail from the the Ughi map of 1729.

San Provolo San Procolo
Probably founded by the Partecipazio family in 814, with priests nominated by the abbess from the nearby convent of San Zaccaria. Rebuilt in 1384 and again between 1477 and 1504. Restored 1642. Suppressed in 1808, today there's a house and bar on the site. A Signor Procolo was said to have died when the bell from this church's campanile fell on him. Whether the coincidence of his name makes this story more or less believable I leave up to you to decide.		Detail from the the Ughi map of 1729.
San Sepulcro
Convent founded in 1409 as a hostel for pilgrims. Modernised in 1570 when the portal, maybe by Sansovino or Vittoria, was added. This doorway (see right) is now the entrance to the Presidio Militare (no. 4142, on the Riva degli Schiavone) and is all that remains after suppression in 1808 and the demolition of most of the buildings. Lost art Altar table with legs in the form of angels by Tullio Lombardo is now in San Martino. Photo above by Didoom
San Severo
Originally built between 811 and 827 and then rebuilt after the fire of 1105. It kept this form until it was suppressed on 12th April 1813 and demolished in 1829. The Austrians built a prison on the site, which closed in 1929.		San Severo, in a detail from the map of 1635, with the dome of San Zaccaria in the foreground.
Santa Maria de la Celestia
Built 1119-1239 by the Celsi family, with a convent dedicated to St Mary of Heaven. The convent was rebuilt following the Arsenale fire of 1569 by Andrea Palladio. The church rebuilding fell to Vincenzo Scamozzi in 1581, who planned a domed structure (inspired by Palladio's rejected original design for the Redentore) but the nuns rejected his plans just as the dome was being installed. In 1611, having demolished this building, they erected a latin-cross shaped church, which was demolished in 1810. The convent was used as Austrian garrison barracks from 1858-76, and as a school for naval mechanics from the Arsenale from 1873-1943. In 1930 part of it was converted into public housing, the rest housing the city archives. Restoration recently begun on the cloister.
Santa Maria delle Vergini Le Virgini
Built by Doge Pietro Ziani, at the suggestion of Ugolino, Bishop of Ostia, who later became Pope Gregory IX, on a visit as apostolic legate in 1224. The Augustinian convent and church were named Santa Maria Nova, to commemorate the church in Palestine destroyed by the Saracens. After the usual fires and reconstructions Guglielmo dei Grigi was commissioned to undertake rebuilding between 1547 and 1549. Church and monastery suppressed and given to the Navy in 1806, becoming a prison in 1809. The choir was demolished in 1822, the remaining parts in 1844. All that's left is this relief (right), God the Father with the Virgin and Saints Mark and Augustine, from over the church entrance, which is now embedded in the wall of the Arsenale. The plaque underneath the arch, dated 2nd May 1557, reads... MDLVII ADI II MAZO SPES ET AMOR GRATO CARCERE NOS RETINENT S.M. DELE VERZENE 'Hope and love keep us in this pleasant prison'. Campanile A chunky one, as seen in the map of 1635, demolished between 1844 and 1869 to make way for a dry dock.		A detail from the map of 1635 showing Santa Maria delle Vergini with (left foreground) San Daniel. Campo San Pietro is to the right.
Santa Marina
		Founded in 1130 by the Balbi family and dedicated to San Liberale and Sant'Alassio. The body of St Margaret of Antioch (known as Santa Marina) was stolen and brought here from Constantinople in 1231 and placed on the high altar, resulting in the church switching dedication to her. Santa Marina was a 5th century saint from the Lebanon who spent her life as a monk, only being found out upon her death, despite having been accused of fathering a child, which she then raised. The church had two fine monuments, one to Doge Michele Steno, the other to Doge Nicolò Marcello and the work of Pietro Lombardo. Both are now in San Zanipolo. The church was restored a few times before suppression in 1810. In 1818 it became a tavern. It was demolished in 1820 to make way for housing. The church is commemorated by a small altar with an image of Santa Marina on the wall of a house. Her remains were transferred to Santa Maria Formosa. Giovanni Bellini lived in the parish nearby, probably in Campo Santa Marina, in his later life.
Santa Ternità
History There's still a campo named after church, which was at what is now number 3026. The church founded during the reign of Doge Pietro Centranico (1026-1032) by the Celsi and Sagredo families. The remains of San Gherardo Sagredo, martyred in Hungary in 1046, were preserved as a relic in the family chapel to the left of the high altar. He is now commemorated by the Sagredo chapel in San Francesco della Vigna. Santa Ternità was restored in the 13th Century, when the body of St Athanasius was brought here. Rebuilt in 1607, in 1569 after a fire at the Arsenale, and in 1721. Suppressed in 1810 and used as a timber store, until it was demolished in 1832. Lost art The St Francis Receiving the Stigmata by Giambattista Tiepolo painted for this church is now lost. Campanile 12th Century and detached, it was truncated when the church was demolished and was lived in, until it collapsed on 13th December 1880, burying Giovanni Baratelli, a ship's engineer, who was dug out unharmed.		A detail from the map of 1635 showing Santa Ternità in the left foreground, with Santa Maria de la Celestia to the right and San Francesco della Vigna, top left.
Detail from the the Ughi map of 1729

Chiesa degli Incurabili
Tintoretto's Voyage of St Ursula with the eleven thousand virgins and a Crucifixion by Veronese taken from this church to San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti.
San Basegio San Basilio
Detail from the Ughi map of 1729		Built in the late 9th or early 10th Century. Renovated after fire of 1105, but collapsed during 1347 earthquake. Rebuilt and reconsecrated 1348. Further restoration 1476 to 1514. Had a nave and two aisles separated by columns, with ship's-keel ceilng and an image of St Basil over the altar. Restored by Andrea Tirali in 1730. Closed in 1810, the church became a timber warehouse before being demolished in 1824.
Santa Maria dell'Umilita
Sited south of the Salute towards the Zattere. Built by the Jesuits 1578-89. Occupied by Benedictines when the Jesuits were expelled from Venice in 1606, until 1806 when church and monastery were suppressed. Both then demolished 1824 to make way for gardens for the patriarchal seminary. The church had a mighty fine Tintoretto Deposition of c.1560 which is now in the Accademia. Also three oval ceiling paintings by Veronese, moved to San Zanipolo in 1919.


San Geminiano
		There is said to have been a church on roughly this site (facing the Basilica San Marco across the Piazza) since 552. I say roughly because a medieval church was demolished in the early 13th Century to extend the Piazza. This annoyed the pope and a new church was built further to the West, on the Rio Balari, which was later buried beneath paving. Begun by Venetian architect Cristoforo da Legname in 1505, this church was completed by Jacopo Sansovino in 1575 as part of his major improvements to the whole piazza. Work on the interior and façade was financed by Tommaso Rangone on condition his effigy was displayed, this demand was refused by the Senate. (Rangone got his way later with the less-prominant church of San Giuliano.) The church was demolished, to no small outcry, to make way for the staircase of Napoleon's Palazzo Reale in May 1807. Since 1797 it had served as a military barracks due to its strategic position. It was originally to be replaced by a triumphal arch. Sansovino was buried in the church but his remains were moved upon demolition to the Seminario della Salute. His children, Fiorenza and Francesco (author of Venetia, citta nobilissima et singolare) had also been buried in the church. Sansovino described the church as being lavishly decorated within and encrusted with marble and Istrian stone on the outside. It is extremely rich and well-conceived in design. In the Hand-book for Travellers in Northern Italy, a guidebook of 1842, the author, Sir Francis Palgrave wrote that the destruction of San Geminiano was a 'Gallic vandalism ...which has inflicted such irreparable injury upon the fine arts'. The nearby church of San Maurizio was designed by patrician Pietro Zaguri who drew inspiration from Codussi and from Sansovino’s San Giminiano. Lost art Three statues of saints by Bartolomeo Bergamasco now on the high altar of San Giovanni di Malta. The remains of San Geminiano were transferred to the church of Santissimo Nome di Gesu. Organ doors by Veronese are now in the Galleria Estense in Modena. A bust of Alessandro Vittoria is now in the Ca' d'Oro. Tintoretto's Saint Catherine altarpiece is now in a private collection in Chicago. The altar of the Scuola di Santa Caterina had an altarpiece by Giovanni Bellini which is now lost.
Sant'Angelo
Founded in 920, burnt down in 1105, rebuilt in 1431, and restored after another fire in 1685. Closed on the 14th October 1810 and used as a warehouse until it was demolished in 1837. The altar from this church is now in the right chancel chapel in the nearby church of Santo Stefano. Campanile The first one was toppled by an earthquake in in 1084. A latter detached campanile fell down in 1347 after, it is said, the bells rang out of their own accord. In 1455 an architect called Fioravanti tried to correct a strong inclination and a day later it fell, killing two friars. It was rebuilt in 1456 but struck by lightening in 1487. A restored campanile lasted until the church was demolished in 1837. Lost art Titian's dark and smoky late Pieta was rejected by the Frari as an addition to Titian's tomb. It eventually passed to the artist's ex-pupil Palma Giovane, who in turn left it to Sant'Angelo. It remained here until it was moved to the Accademia when the church closed in 1810. The church in art The church appears in paintings by Canaletto and Bella in the Querini Stampalia gallery.
Santa Maria dell'Ascensione Santa Maria in Broglio
		In the 12th century the order of Templars owned the church of Santa Maria in Broglio (from brolo meaning garden or orchard) with an attached hospice for pilgrims on their way to the holy land. It stood on the site of the current Hotel Luna by the Vallaresso vaporetto stop. Abandoned in 1311, when Pope Clement V abolished the Templars the complex passed to the Knights of Malta, who later sold it to the procurators of San Marco. They rented it to a Fra Malasa on the understanding that he didn't use it to house the poor but keep it available for visiting ambassadors. In the late-15th Century the monastery was rented to the Osteria della Luna. Restoration work on the church was begun in 1516 by the confraternity of the Holy Spirit (aka the confraternity of the Ascension) but was not completed until 1597, because of conflicts with the confraternity of the Blind. The church was later renamed after the Feast of the Ascension and closed in 1810. It was used as a warehouse until it was demolished in 1824 to make way for an extension to the hotel.
San Paterniano
Tradition has it that the Andreada family founded a wooden church in the 10th Century dedicated to St Paternian, an image of whom had been brought from the March of Ancona in 890 and venerated in a tabernacle. This church burnt down in 976 and was rebuilt in stone between 1005 and 1168 using eight Greek marble columns brought from Constantinople. Rebuilt again in 1437 with a nave, two aisles and seven altars. Closed in 1810. The church and its pentagonal campanile dating from 999, and so the oldest in Venice, was demolished by the Town Council in 1871 to make way for the Manin statue in Campo Manin after having first put them up for auction and having found no takers.
Santi Filippo and Giacomo
		Probably founded in the 12th Century with its dedication extended to include St Appollonia in connection with the nearby scuola. Restored in 1683, secularised in 1807 and demolished, the remaining buildings becoming the residence of the primate of San Marco. The lovely Romanesque cloister of Sant'Appollonia remains. The church is to the far left in this detail from the Ughi map of 1729.

Sant'Agostin to the left, San Boldo to the right, San Giacomo dell’Orio to the rear. From the Merian map of 1635 .
San Boldo
San Boldo is Venetian dialect for St Hubald. The church, originally dedicated to Sant’Agata, was built, according to tradition, in the 10th Century. The first documentary evidence mentions the Tron and Zusto families and building in 1088. The church was damaged by fire in 1105 and rebuilt in 1305. This last rebuilding involved enlargement and the building of the campanile. The church acquired the name San Boldo from the attached hospice for poor women founded in 1395 with a bequest from the De Matteo family of Florence. The freestanding church became gradually hemmed in and at the beginning of the 18th Century was falling down. Rebuilding resulted, and the church and reopened in 1739, after plans by Giorgio Massari. After the 18th Century rebuilding works by Rocco Marconi, Paolo Piazza, Gaetano Zompini and Francesco Pittoni could be found here. Suppressed in 1805, closed in 1808 and demolished in August 1826, only the truncated 14th Century campanile remains (see photo right) now attached to the Palazzo Grioni, also sometimes called the Palazzo San Boldo. (However, another source says that this is the Palazzo Businello S. Boldo and that the Palazzo Grimani (aka Grioni?) was demolished.) The church façade was to the right and faced the campo. A 14th Century relief of Saint Agatha saved from the church is now in the Museo Patriarcale.
San Mattio
Founded in the mid 12th Century, renewed and rebuilt many times. Considerable work in the first years of the 17th Century. Complete rebuilding in 1735. Known as a church rich in its fittings and paintings, testimony to the guild of butchers who had been responsible for the church from 1436. The church was suppressed 1805, the campanile demolished in 1818 due to a dangerous lean, with the church's demolition following a few years later. All that remains of the Church of San Matteo Apostolo del Rialto, called San Mattio, is a bas relief of the 16th century, once on the campanile and today in the Museo del Seminario Patriarchale.		San Mattio is upper left in this detail from the Ughi map of 1729, the Rialto bridge is to the right.
San Stin
Venetian dialect for San Stefano the Confessor (Stefanino). Original church built in 10th Century, destroyed by the fire of 1105, rebuilt in 1295. . Much work on the interior in the 17th Century, with improvement to several chapels belonging to local worthies, including the wealthy Zuane family, who first commissioned Longhena, then Antonio Gaspari, and finally Domenico Rossi. These last two artists oversaw the work on the church. Suppressed by the French in 1810 and demolished soon after. The base of the campanile and the remains of a chapel still exist, and were used until quite recently as an upholsterer's workshop. Campo of same name (the church was on the rio side, see top right of map below San Nicolò below) has a well head with a relief depicting St Stephen. Lost art An Assumption by Tintoretto, now in the Accademia.
Sant'Agostin
Founded in 959 by the Bishop of Olivolo, Pietro Marturio Quintavalle, who left the church in his will to the future Bishops of Olivolo. The first documented mention dates it to 1081. Rebuilt twice after fires in 1149 and 1630, in the latter case to designs by Francesco Contino, with consecration following in 1691. Chapels included one for the Zane family by Antonio Gaspari and Domenico Rossi. The church contained art by Bernardino, Molinari, and Paris Bordone. Suppressed in 1808, closed in 1810. Used as a mill from 1813 (to ease the blockade) and then as a warehouse until it was demolished in 1873. Housing built on the site. During work to install sewage treatment tanks in 2000 the foundations of the last church were found and then four graves dating from the first church. They had been opened and desecrated by the builders of the second church, and the bones of about 20 other corpses were found all mixed up. Sant'Agostin is right of centre in this detail from the Ughi map of 1729. San Boldo is top right.
San Nicolò dei Frari (San Nicoletto della Lattuga)
Given the diminutive San Nicoletto to differentiate it from San Nicolò del Lido, both churches being dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra. Built around 1332 by Prosecutor Nicolò Lion, the man who discovered Doge Marin Falier's conspiracy in 1355. He had been miraculously cured of a serious illness by eating some lettuces from the Frari's friars' garden and so founded this small church and monastery on the site of the garden and left it to them after his death. He died in 1356 and was buried in this church, his tomb being moved to the Frari after the church was closed in 1807. There had been major rebuilding in 1561, with an altarpiece by Titian The Madonna and Child in Glory with Angels and Saints (see right) (now in the Vatican museum) installed in 1533-35. The church later acquired eleven works by Veronese, three of these works (St. Nicolas recognized as bishop of Mira, St. Francis receiving the stigmata, and a Crucifixion) are now in the Accademia and five went San Zanipolo (including The Adoration of the Magi). A Baptism and Temptation of Christ is now in Brera. Also paintings by Palma Giovane, Nicolò Bambini, Giovanni Antonio Fumiani. When the complex was closed by Napoleon in 1806 the monks moved to the Frari, the monastery being used by the French as a barracks for a while and used as a mill from 1813 (to ease the blockade). The church itself was demolished in 1809. The monastery and parts of its cloister remain as part of the Frari State Archives complex.
Detail from Ughi map of 1729, showing San Nicolleto top middle and San Stin top rightish.
A detail from the Merian map of 1635 showing Santa Croce to the west with San Giovanni Battista to the east, and the then-new church of Le Zitelle in the Centre.

San Giacomo della Giudecca 1343
The order of the Servi de Maria (Servites) based in Cannaregio were given money in 1338 by Marsilio da Carrara, Signore of Padua, to build a church called Santa Maria Novella on the Giudecca. The church was built on the site of an oratory dedicated to San Giacomo, and inherited the name. (Until 1999 the local Vaporetto stop was also called San Giacomo.) Before the building of the Redentore in the 16th Century this was the biggest church on Giudecca. Suppressed by the French and demolished in 1837. The monastery became a barracks in 1821 and was later demolished to make way for public housing. The church in art Visible to right (i.e. West) of The Church of the Redentore (detail right) by Canaletto (Manchester Art Gallery)
Detail from Ughi map of 1729
San Giovanni Battista
Church and monastery founded in 1333 by Bonaccorso de Benedetti, a merchant from Lucca and occupied by Camaldolesi monks from San Mattia on Murano. The complex stood at the tip of Giudecca, opposite San Giorgio (see map at start of Giudecca section above). It was completed in 1344, with the addition of a hospital for the poor in 1369. Church renovated and consecrated in 1371 by Paolo Foscari, the Bishop of Castello. Once had organ doors painted by Cima de Conigliano. By 1820 the church was no more. The church in art Appears in the centre of San Giorgio Maggiore with the Giudecca and the Zitelle by Guardi, of which many versions exist.
Sant'Angelo
		Founded in 1555, with a small monastery attached and dedicated to Sant'Angelo of Concordia. Demolished 1943 to make way for Junghans watch and clock factory. Was sited at south end of west bank of Rio del Ponte Longo.
Santi Biagio e Cataldo
Demolished to make way for the Mulino Stucky. Lost art Sts Nicholas, Charles Borromeo and Lucy by Palma Giovane, which came from this church, is now in San Pietro Martire on Murano. The church in art Appears at left edge of Guardi's View of the Giudecca Canal and the Zattere (see right) A detail from the Merian map of 1635		A detail from Guardi's View of the Giudecca Canal and the Zattere


Santa Chiara
Founded 1236, rebuilt several times, caught fire in 1574, consecrated during rebuilding work in 1620. Convent and church suppressed in 1807, convent converted into a military hospital 1819. All but the 17th Century cloisters were demolished in the second half of 19th Century. They're now part of the police headquarters and also house the Red Cross. The convent in art Canaletto's The Grand Canal, looking South-East along the Fondamenta di Santa Chiara, (Private collection, London) see below right, has the wall of the convent peeking into the right-hand edge, with the wall of Corpus Domini, also lost, far left.		From the Merian map of 1635, that's Sant'Andrea della Zirada in front.
Santa Croce
Established by refugees fleeing the Lombards in the 6th Century, becoming a parish church in 774. Monastery established 1109 by Cluniac monks from France. A scandal forced the monks to leave in 1341. The complex passed to the Franciscans and then to the Poor Clares. Restoration to plans by Antonio da Ponte from 1583, the year Doge Nicolo da Ponte laid the foundation stone. New church consecrated in 1600 and acquired by the patriarch. Suppressed in 1810, used as a warehouse and then demolished in 1813. The site became the private garden of Spiradone Papadopoli in 1834, but is now the grim and dusty public Giardino Papadopoli. The church had nine altars and was richly decorated. A column from the church (see right) is all that remains, in the corner of the garden wall on Rio dei Tollentini. Not sure about this one, taken in December 1928. The position is right for Santa Croce but it looks, well, like an unconvincing imitation of a real church.		The Canaletto sketch (above) with Santa Croce on the right is the probable source of the Bellotto painting (below).
Murano
San Cipriano Lost art The early 13th Century ceiling mosaic from the apse here now decorates the apse in the Friedenskirche in Potsdam. San Giacomo Organ shutters by Veronese, now in the Barber Institute, Birmingham. San Giovanni dei Battuti Lost art There was a Scuola di San Giovanni dei Battuti from which some panelling, carved by Pietro Morando, and paintings, were removed and installed in the sacristy of San Pietro Martire on Murano. The Baptism Of Jesus by Jacopo Tintoretto which came from above the high altar here is now also in San Pietro Martire on Murano. An altarpiece St John the Baptist worshipped by Vincenzo Serena by 'school of Titian' came from here and went there too. Vincenzo Serena having been a 'guardian' at the Scuola here. San Martino Santo Stefano The church was demolished between 1835 and 1860 following suppression. The chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento was saved from destruction by Monsignor Giovanni Nichetti, who transformed it into an oratory in 1848, which still exists. Frescoes in the oratory depict the Trinity and the Four Evangelists: Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory, Saint Ambrose, and Saint Augustine. Lost art An altar 'in Lombardian style' and the baptismal font, both now in San Pietro Martire on Murano. San Salvatore		San Matteo San Maffio Oratory (at 19-23 Fondamanta Radi) is all that remains of monastery founded in 1280.
Others
San Clemente works from it are in Sant’Appolonia San Cristoforo delle Pace 15th Century church (and monastery) by Pietro Lombardo, demolished around 1810. In 1836 the canal between San Cristoforo and San Michele was filled in to build the cemetery. Lost art Giovanni Bellini painted St Jerome between Sts Peter and Paul for the altar of the funerary chapel of Grand Chancellor Giovanni Dedo in San Cristoforo in 1505. Zanetti said it was in a poor state in 1771 - it's now lost. Painted by Canaletto, with San Michele beyond, detail below. San Giovanni Evangelista Torcello		Santa Maria in Valverde Mazzorbo Only the 15th C campanile remains (and chapel/toilet?) from the lost church. Sant'Andrea Le Certosa Church by Pietro Lombardo, part of monastery established by Carthusians in 1424, suppressed by Napoleon. San Severo Tintoretto Crucifixion now in the Accademia.
		San Vitale Poveglia A thriving community, on a par with that on Murano, once lived on Poveglia. The War of Chioggia in 1378 and the consequent repatriation to Giudecca thinned the population. The island itself had eroded to a shadow of its former size. It became fortified and made into a shipyard. In the late 18th Century the island took over duties as a quarantine station from the Lazaretto nuovo - the sanatorium buildings remain. Tradition says that the church possessed a miraculous sculpted crucifix painted by Titian, which was later moved to Malamocco. The church was suppressed in 1806. All that remains of it is the tower, which was used as a lighthouse.