The Chiesa di San Pantaleone Martire, known as San Pantalon in the Venetian language, is a church in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy. It is located on the Campo San Pantalon (square), and is dedicated to Saint Pantaleon.
The 17th-century Chiesa di San Pantalon is a parish church of the Vicariate of San Polo-Santa Croce-Dorsoduro.
Architectural elements
San Pantalon is particularly well known for its immense ceiling painting, depicting
The Martyrdom and Apotheosis of St Pantalon. It was painted on canvas by Gian Antonio Fumiani between 1680 and 1704, when he fell to his death from the scaffolding, although some sources date his death to six years after he stopped work on the San Pantalon ceiling.
Other notable works include Coronation of the Virgin by Antonio Vivarini and Giovanni d'Alemagna in the Chapel of the Holy Nail and St Pantalon healing a Boy, the last work by Paolo Veronese, originally commissioned for the high altar.
Assessments of the Fumiani fresco
Modern critics note that the dramatic sotto in su canvas marks the entry of Bolognese
quadratura to Venice; Fumiani had studied with the perspective painter Domenico degli Ambrogi.
[Giandomenico Romanelli, Venice: art & architecture, Volume 1, 1997.]
John Ruskin, in his typical disdain of all post-Quattrocento works, described the ceiling oil painting as a:
John Crowley's novel The Solitudes, his first volume in the Ægypt series, has an extended response to the painting.
Interior of San Pantaleone (Venice) - The Martyrdom and Apotheosis of St Pantalon - Gian Antonio Fumiani.jpg|
Interior of San Pantaleone (Venice) Organo.jpg|Organ Op. 400 by Gaetano Callido
Interior of San Pantaleone (Venice) Fonte battesimale.jpg|Baptismal font
Antonio Vivarini San Pataleon.jpg|Coronation of the Virgin, 1444 by Antonio Vivarini and Giovanni d'Alemagna
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