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The Church of San Pantalon and Fumiani's Illusion

Campo San Pantalon with the church whose façade was never completed
Campo San Pantalon with the church whose façade was never completed Photo: CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

From the campo, San Pantalon looks like a church forgotten halfway: a wall of raw bricks, without a façade, that promises nothing. But whoever passes through the portal finds themselves beneath the largest canvas painting in the world: 443 square metres of Baroque illusion, the Martyrdom and Glory of St Pantaleon that Gian Antonio Fumiani pursued for twenty-four years and — legend has it — ended up paying for with his life.

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