by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, with decorative works in trompe-l'œil by Gerolamo Mengozzi-Colonna. In a city often likened to a cardboard film set, the...

of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. He then collaborated on work for Longhena. He completed statues of St Paul and a crucifix for the altar of Alessandro...

Baldassarre Longhena and completed in the last decades of that century. The facade in Venetian Late Baroque style, was financed by the aristocrat Gerolamo Cavazza...

but the profusely-decorated Baroque facade was completed by Baldassarre Longhena and containing sculptures by Giusto Le Court. The nave still contains frescoes...

single large palazzo on the site. For this purpose he employed Baldassarre Longhena (1597-1682), the greatest proponent of Venetian Baroque, a style slowly...

Carmelites, Cominelli undertook other works. He made the altar of Baldassarre Longhena's St. Mary the Virgin in 1674-1677. He participated in the competition for...

Filippo Juvarra (1678–1736), architect, draughtsman and designer Baldassarre Longhena (1598–1682), architect known for the Church of Santa Maria della Salute...

knowledge of the circulation of body fluids by discovering the lacteal vessels Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576), mathematician and physician; initiated the general...