Venice - Santi Giovanni et Paolo

(Local Name: Zanipolo) Next to the Franciscan Church of I Frari, the church of the Mendicant Order of Dominicans, the Zanipolo, is the prime example of Late Gothic ecclesiastical architecture in Venice. The vast brick structure, dating from 1333 to 1390, is sometimes justifiably referred to as the "Pantheon of the Doges". Eleven Doges were buried here in the 15th and 16th centuries. Many of their tombs were designed by Pietro Lombardo, the architect of the Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, and his equally famous son Tullio.

Capilla del Rosario

Formerly decorated with works by Tintoretto and Palma the Younger which were all destroyed in the fire of 1867, the ceiling has paintings by Veronese: "The Adoration of the Magi" (in the Presbytery), "The Assumption of the Virgin (at the front of the chapel), "The Adoration of the Shepherds", "The Annunciation" and "The Nativity" (on the wall by the entrance).

South aisle

The early Renaissance Polyptych, still in its original frame, is by Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1465).