Church of San Moisè (or San Moisè Profeta)

Churches in Venice - San Marco

Church was dedicated to homonym prophet Moses and also honours Moisè Venier, who took charge of rebuilding it in the 9th century.
Nevertheless, as the facade shows, the church suffered many changes in the baroque age. The project of the facade is by Tremignon. Some of its sculptures are generally attributed to Heinrich Meyring.
Interior has just one nave and keeps many works of the seventeenth century and, on the wall of the entrance, a precious organ made in 1700.
Among the paintings exhibited, the Adorazione dei Magi (Three Wise Man Adoration) by Giuseppe Diamantini, a member of Caracci's school.
In the presbitery it's possible to see a painting by Tintoretto and a Ultima Cena (Last Dinner) by Jacopo Palma il Giovane.
A bronze bas-relief of Genoese school, Gli Angeli che trasportano Cristo morto, and il Padre Eterno in gloria, fra il gruppo di pie donne (Angels bringing dead Christ's body and God in glory), stands in the sacresty near the altar.
The interior is dominated by Meyring's huge altarpiece: Mount Sinai with Moses receiving the Tablets.

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