Venice, Italy: San Marco: Royal Palace of Venice: Correr Museum: Picture Gallery: Saint Peter the Martyr
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Sheppard, Beth M.
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May 24, 2017
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Italy , Venice , Venezia , San Marco , Piazza di San Marco , Royal Palace of Venice , Palazzo Reale di Venezia , Correr Museum , Museo Correr , Teodoro Correr , Procuratorie Nuove , Venetian Paintings , Saints in Art , Saint Peter the Martyr in Art , Vittore Carpaccio , Triptychs , Church of Santa Fosca
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Multiple photos are associated with this record. Please click the links to view all of the items in the series. The photos were taken in the Royal Palace of Venice (in Italian: Il Palazzo Reale) in the San Marco district on the island of Venice, Italy. Venice (Venezia) is a city in northeastern Italy that is built on a group of 126 islands separated by open water and canals, linked through 472 bridges. The historical island city is home to only 51K people, but a very popular tourist destination with about 60K tourists per day. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is renowned for its beauty, architecture, and artwork. The landmark of St. Mark's Square (Piazza di San Marco) is the basilica dedicated to Saint Mark the Evangelist and contains his relics. The church is sited on the eastern end of the square, the former center of the Republic of Venice, and is attached to the Doge's Palace. There are other important landmarks around this square, such as the Royal Palace of Venice, which is a complex that consists of the Marciana Library, the Archaeological Museum, and the Correr Museum. These photos are of the Picture Gallery on the second floor of the Correr Museum (Museo Correr), which is located in the Procuratorie Nuove building. The museum's items originated with Teodoro Correr, a passionate collector who bequeathed his collection to the city of Venice in 1830. The painting is "Saint Peter the Martyr" by Vittore Carpaccio, a great Venetian painter of narrative cycles. It is tempera on panel and is one of his later works. It was originally part of a triptych in the Venetian church of Santa Fosca, but was broken up when religious houses were ordered suppressed by Napoleon. The other two parts, St. Sebastian (signed and dated 1514) and St. Roch are part of the collections of the Zagabria Academy and the Bergamo Accademia Carrara, respectively.
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