Church of San Domenico Site Features

The church is a straightforward eighteenth-century rebuilding: a single wide nave with side altars, plain plastered walls, and a restrained facade. It makes no architectural claims and is not the reason to come.

The campanile is the older element, a brick tower surviving from the medieval Dominican church.

The setting is the building's real architectural quality: it stands alone on a small island east of the Vena, reached by a bridge, with water on every side and none of the town's density around it.

Inside, the interest is in the paintings rather than the fabric -- the Carpaccio, a crucifix of some age, and altarpieces of the Venetian school.

Carpaccio's St Paul (1520)

The last work Carpaccio signed. A late, sober, rather melancholy painting by an artist whose early Venetian cycles are far better known -- and seeing it in the church it was painted for is a very different experience from a gallery.

The campanile

Medieval, and older than the church attached to it.

The island setting

Water on all sides and a bridge to reach it, a few minutes from the Corso but entirely separate from it.

The other altarpieces

Venetian-school works of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, including a large crucifix of local devotional importance.