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Church of San Sebastiano

Scarpagnino’s façade on Campo San Sebastiano, Veronese’s ’Sistine Chapel’
Scarpagnino’s façade on Campo San Sebastiano, Veronese’s ’Sistine Chapel’ Photo: CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In the quiet campo of Dorsoduro opens what many call Paolo Veronese’s ’Sistine Chapel’: San Sebastiano — ’San Bastian’, the Venetians say — the church of the Girolimini friars which the painter transformed, between 1555 and 1570, into the most extraordinary collective self-portrait of Venetian painting: ceilings, frescoes, organ, presbytery and even the choir doors.

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