The church of San Luca Evangelista is a religious building in the city of Venice, located in the San Marco district.
The church of San Luca Evangelista was built in the 11th century by the patrician families Dandolo and Pizzamano as a parish church with a Venetian-Byzantine structure with three naves. It was restored and renovated between the 13th and 14th centuries. Towards the middle of the 16th century the church was totally rebuilt and consecrated in 1617. The original orientation remained the same but the architecture was changed according to the tastes of the time.
The facade, which overlooks the small foundations, is of the gabled
type with a single order. In 1827 it suffered a partial collapse and was
restored by Sebastiano Santi in 1832. The portal is an architectural
element of a certain importance.
The interior has a single nave
with apsidal chapels. The side altars are placed on the walls. The flat
ceiling is frescoed by Sebastiano Santi and depicts San Luca, patron of
the church, San Paterniano and San Benedetto, co-patrons. In the
presbytery, above the altar built in 1581, there is an altarpiece by
Paolo Veronese which represents The Virgin in Glory Appearing to Saint
Luke in the act of writing the Gospel. In the right side chapel there is
a painting by Palma il Giovane (1528-1588) depicting the Virgin in glory
and saints. In the second altar to the left of the main entrance is the
work Lorenzo Giustiniani, first patriarch of Venice who approaches the
sick and distributes the alms of Carlo Loth, buried in the church; on
the second altar on the right is the altarpiece San Ludovico re, santa
Cecilia and santa Margherita by Nicolas Régnier.