Chiesa parrocchiale di Santa Maria Maggiore
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Dedicated to Santa Maria Maggiore, it was built starting in 1805 based on the design of the Veronese architect Bartolomeo Giuliari and completed in 1904 with the finishing touches on the frescoes.
A vast staircase leads to a wide portico, composed of 14 Corinthian columns, each 12 meters tall.
In addition to the fragment of the arch of the old church, beneath the portico there is a funeral monument, the work of the sculptor Ugo Zannoni, in memory of the painters Giuseppe Zannoni and Marcello Rancani, the nephew of the former, who died in 1903 after falling from scaffolding while preparing to fresco the apse, a job that had just begun ten days prior.
The interior of the church is a single rectangular hall, with two chapels on each side and illuminated by four semicircular windows with artistic stained glass.
All the frescoed works are by Giovanni Bevilacqua (1871-1968), a painter from Isola della Scala. The vault presents a slightly lowered barrel shape, with wide lateral pulls. It is decorated with a cycle of frescoes depicting the Cardinal Virtues and Theological Virtues, together with angels holding seven-branched candlesticks.
Among the notable works housed inside are "Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the Well" attributed to Girolamo dai Libri (1474-1555), "The Temptation of Christ" attributed to Francesco Caroto (1480-1555), the "Visitation" by Giovanni Caliari (painted in 1838), and the "Madonna with Child" from the school of Giambettino Cignaroli.
The church's bell tower, built between 1894 and 1897, is 79 meters tall and is one of the tallest in Veneto.
Contact
Chiesa parrocchiale di Santa Maria Maggiore
Piazza Silvio Venturi, 5 ( Directions )

