The church of San Gallo is a religious building in the city of
Venice, located in the San Marco district, not far from Piazza San
Marco.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the area
underwent important urban changes and today San Gallo is located in a
modern context, between the buildings of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro
and the Banco di Napoli (1914).
A first church of San Gallo was founded around 1581 as an oratory of the renovated Orseolo hospice, which was transferred to this area from its original location in Piazza San Marco to make way for the Procuratie Nuove. It was enlarged in 1703 by the brothers of the hospice, obtaining from the procurators of San Marco to extend the building on a property of the Basilica Marciana.
It is probably the smallest building of its kind in the city, since,
according to the provisions of the prosecutors, the church could not
have exceeded nine paces in width and twenty in length, also taking care
not to compromise the functioning of the well in front.
The
facade is almost entirely occupied by the portal and the two side
windows and ends with a triangular tympanum connected to two pedestals
on which statues (never built) must have been placed.
Inside
there are three altars: the main one is decorated with the canvas of the
Redeemer between St. Gall and St. Mark attributed to Jacopo Tintoretto
or Bonifacio dei Pitati; the one on the left, dedicated to Santa
Veneranda, bears an eighteenth-century ivory crucifix and a small
painting of the owner; the last is that of the Madonna del
Buonconsiglio, with a small picture enclosed by a rich carved frame.