Chiesa di S. Francesco della Vigna | St. Francis church in a vineyard

Perspective view of St Francis Church in a vineyard shot from the façade along with the burgher buildings surrounding the square it stands in. On the left, water is being drawn from a brick well. There are monks and worshippers walking to the church, townspeople chatting, a group of boys playing, and servants carrying vessels around the square. The illuminated façade in the deep right is part of the monastery premises. The Renaissance church of St. Francis of Assisi was built in the Venetian district of Castello between 1534 and 1554 to a design by Jacopo Sansovin (1476-1570) on the site of the former vineyard, commemorated in its name. As the façade, designed by Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) in 1568, was partially obscured by the building in front of it, the engraver had to dispense with topographical fidelity. Board 9 was taken from the second edition of the album Le fabriche, e vedute di Venetia with views of Venice, 1768. Luca Carlevarijs (1663-1730), an architect, mathematician, engraver, and painter, considered the father of Venetian vedute composition, was the author of the etchings based on his own design drawings. The album features 103 engravings preceded by a title page and dedication. The first edition came out in 1703. Purchased for the collection of the National Museum in Szczecin in 1977 from a private individual, the piece came from the collection of Anton Paul Heinlein (1715 - after 1795), a Nuremberg merchant and collector of oil, glass and enamel paintings, as well as sculptures and other works of art. It is also known to have been procured by D. Meyer at an auction of Johann Andreas Boerner's antique shop in 1832. Ewa Gwiazdowska