San Fantin, Venice

San Fantin (short for San Fantino) is a church in the sestiere of San Marco in Venice, Italy. It stands in front of the Fenice Theater and adjacent to the Ateneo Veneto (the former Scuola grande di San Fantin).

AffiliationRoman Catholic

ProvinceVenice

LocationVenice, Italy

Coordinates45°26′02″N 12°20′03″E

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San Fantin
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Religion
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Province	Venice
Location
Location	Venice, Italy
Coordinates	45°26′02″N 12°20′03″E
Architecture
Completed	10th century

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This parish church was first erected in the 10th century under the patronage of the patrician families from Barozzi, Aldicina, and Equilia. Reconstruction was undertaken by the Pisani family, who installed in the church a miraculous icon of the Virgin they had obtained from the East. The church of San Fantin by the 15th century came to be called the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie di San Fantino. Ten thousand ducats were willed for the church's reconstruction by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Zeno who died in 1501. A number of relics were transferred to this church including the body of Saint Marcellina and an Arm bone of the martyred Saint Trifone, Protector of Cattaro.^[1]

Work on the church has been assigned or attributed to many architects, from Pietro Lombardo, Sebastiano Mariani, and later Jacopo Sansovino. Over the door of the sacristy is conserved the funeral urn of Vinciguerra Dandolo, a work by Tullio Lombardo. In 1908, the church was documented to hold two Piazzetta paintings: Liberation of Venice from the Plague and a Pieta. It had a Holy Family attributed to Giovanni Bellini, a Crucifixion by Lionardo Corona, and a Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth by Tintoretto.^[2] These works have been relocated elsewhere.

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  Interior view
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  Miraculous icon of the Virgin
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  The organ above the porch
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  Bell gable