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San Giorgio Maggiore
View of San Giorgio Maggiore from the top of St Mark's Campanile
San Giorgio Maggiore is located in Venetian Lagoon
San Giorgio Maggiore
San Giorgio Maggiore
Geography
Coordinates45°25′41″N 12°20′39″E / 45.427950°N 12.344184°E / 45.427950; 12.344184
Adjacent toVenetian Lagoon
Administration
Italy
RegionVeneto
ProvinceProvince of Venice

San Giorgio Maggiore (Venetian: San Zorzi Mazor) is one of the islands of Venice, northern Italy, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island group. The island, or more specifically its Palladian church, is an important landmark. It has been much painted, featuring for example in a series by Monet.

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San Giorgio Maggiore

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San Giorgio Maggiore (Venetian: San Zorzi Mazor) is one of the islands of Venice, northern Italy, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island...

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San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk

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Saint-Georges majeur au crépuscule (Eng: Dusk in Venice, San Giorgio Maggiore by Twilight or Sunset in Venice) refers to an Impressionist painting by Claude...

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San Giorgio

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Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice San Giorgio Cathedral, Modica, mother church of Modica, Province of Ragusa, Sicily Duomo of San Giorgio, Ragusa,...

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San Giorgio Monastery

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The San Giorgio Monastery (St. George Monastery) is a Benedictine monastery in Venice, Italy, located on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. It stands...

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San Marco

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of San Giorgio Maggiore St Mark's Square Oratorio di Sant'Angelo degli Zoppi Sestieri of Venice High-resolution 360° Panoramas and Images of San Marco...

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San Servolo ['sɛrvolo] is an Italian island in the Venetian Lagoon, to the southeast of San Giorgio Maggiore. Earlier housing a monastery of Benedictine...

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Master of the Antiphonal Q of San Giorgio Maggiore

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The Master of the Antiphonal Q of San Giorgio Maggiore was an Italian painter of illuminated manuscripts active in the northern region, especially around...

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Andrea Palladio

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Basilica of San Pietro di Castello, Venice (completed after Palladio's death) 1560 (built 1560–1563): Refectory of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia...

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List of churches in Venice

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Cannaregio, San Polo, Dorsoduro (including the Giudecca and Isola Sacca Fisola), Santa Croce, San Marco (including San Giorgio Maggiore) and Castello...

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Santa Maria della Salute

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counter-reformation linear churches, resembling Palladio's Redentore and San Giorgio Maggiore, while Varotari's was a sketchy geometrical abstraction. Longhena's...

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Veneto

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his paintings. The Scuola Grande di San Rocco alone sports 66 paintings by this painter. The San Giorgio Maggiore houses a huge canvas by him depicting...

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Claude Monet

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1908, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk, 1908, National Museum Cardiff, Wales San Giorgio Maggiore, 1908, Indianapolis Museum...

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Vaporetto

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Santa Lucia Station to Piazza San Marco. Note that the vaporetto on this route does not stop at island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Despite the fact that the...

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Venice Lido

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convent was handed to the abbot of the Benedictine monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore. In 1098 some of relics three of saints from Myra (now Demre), west...

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San Severo al Pendino

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List of paintings by Claude Monet

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Pediment

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developed by Andrea Palladio in the next century. The main facade of his San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice (begun 1566) has "two interpenetrating temple fronts",...

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Giudecca

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islands of Venice, from which it is separated by the Giudecca Canal. San Giorgio Maggiore lies off its eastern tip. Giudecca was known in ancient times as...

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Rialto Bridge

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Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Connecting the sestieri (districts) of San Marco and San Polo, it has been rebuilt several times since its first construction...

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13th G7 summit

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10 June 1987. The venue for the summit meetings was the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in the Venetian lagoon. The Group of Seven (G7) was an unofficial...

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