Images to accompany "A Renaissance Synthesis of Ancient Christian Themes: Architecture, Altarpieces and Imagined Spaces in San Giovanni Crisostomo, Venice, 1495-1520" by Éamonn Ó Carragáin

A set of photographs chosen to illustrate the article A Renaissance Synthesis of Ancient Christian Themes: Architecture, Altarpieces and Imagined Spaces in San Giovanni Crisostomo, Venice, 1495-1520 (https://doi.org/10.1484/m.sem-eb.5.119636) by Éamonn Ó Carragáin. The photographs were taken by Éamonn Ó Carragáin between May 2015 and May 2017 in the church of San Giovanni Crisostomo, Venice, Italy. 

File List

Note: The numbering of files matches the numbering of figures in the published article. There is no Figure 1.

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Figure 2. The Modonna Greca, legacy of Giacomo de’ Bernabò, d. 1438; below, altarpiece by Tullio Lombardo, inserted 1506. 

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Figure 3. The Bernabò Chapel and altarpiece; Pulpit donated by Ludovico Talenti; Monument to Talenti. 

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Figure 4. View of the Bernabò Chapel. 

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Figure 5. High altar, and Sebastiano Luciani's altarpiece. Note its framing pillars, and the steps leading to the altar area: these are echoed by the pillar, and the steps, in the painting. 

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Figure 6. Nave of San Giovanni Crisostomo, showing steps and tiled floor, both echoed in the altarpiece. 

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Figure 7. Diletti Chapel (viewed from the Bernabò Chapel), showing the light from the side windows. 

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Figure 8. Diletti Chapel, showing St Christopher and St Louis of Toulouse standing inside the painted chancel, and looking across the nave towards the Bernabò Chapel. 

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A Microsoft Powerpoint document showing each of the figures in order with their captions.