Santa María is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus, in languages such as Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
The Mouth of Truth is a marble mask in Rome, Italy, which stands against the left wall of the portico of the Santa Maria in Cosmedin church, at the Piazza della Bocca della Verità, the site of the ancient Forum Boarium. According to enduring medieval legend, it will bite off the hand of any liar who places their hand in its mouth, or, alternatively, any who utters a lie while their hand is in the mouth. It still attracts many visitors who audaciously insert their hands.
The Grand Canal is a channel in Venice, Italy. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city.
Santa Maria della Salute, commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy.
Dorsoduro is one of the six sestieri of Venice, in northern Italy.
Baldassare Longhena was an Italian architect, who worked mainly in Venice, where he was one of the greatest exponents of Baroque architecture of the period.
Valentano is a town and comune of the province of Viterbo, in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is 33 kilometres (21 mi) from the provincial capital, Viterbo.
Basilica of St. Mary may refer to:
A salute is a gesture or other action used to indicate respect.
Giuseppe Valadier was an Italian architect and designer, urban planner and archaeologist and a chief exponent of Neoclassicism in Italy.
Albaredo d'Adige is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Venice and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Verona. It is located on the river Adige. As of 2004, it had a population of 5,138 and an area of 28.2 square kilometres (10.9 sq mi).
Santissima Annunziata may refer to:
Antonio Zanchi was an Italian painter of the Baroque, active mainly in Venice, but his prolific works can also be seen in Padova, Treviso, Rovigo, Verona, Vicenza, Loreto, Brescia, Milano, and Bergamo, as well as Bavaria.
Pier Maria Pennacchi was an Italian Renaissance painter primarily active in Treviso. His one documented work is a fresco of Christ for a chapel in the Treviso cathedral. In Venice, the ceiling of the church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli is often attributed to him, as are the Annunciation frescoes in San Francesco della Vigna and a Madonna which came to be placed in the sacristy of the church of Santa Maria della Salute. One of his pupils was Girolamo da Treviso.
St. Mark Enthroned is an early painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Titian, created in 1510 or 1511, which is still in the church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice.
A votive church is a church that was built as a sign of thanksgiving for salvation from an emergency or with a request for the fulfillment of a specific desire, and sometimes atonement. Often, the builder has previously made a vow to have the church built in the case of the prayer heard. Votive churches also include so-called thanksgiving churches:
The Grand Canal at the Church of the Salute is an oil on canvas painting by Canaletto. It is a Rococo landscape painting, completed circa 1740. It measures 151 by 121 centimeters and is now in the Emil Georg Bührle collection, Zurich, Switzerland.
The church of Santa Maria della Salute in Primavalle is a church in Rome, in the Primavalle district, in the square Alfonso Capecelatro.
Santa Maria della Vittoria is the name of several churches in Italy:
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