Church of San Simeone Piccolo
Church of San Simeone Piccolo
Religion
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Province	Venice
Location
Location	Venice, Italy
Shown within Venice Show map of Venice San Simeone Piccolo (Italy) Show map of Italy
Geographic coordinates	45°26′25″N12°19′21″E / 45.4402°N 12.3224°E /45.4402; 12.3224
Architecture
Architect(s)	Giovanni Antonio Scalfarotto
Type	Church
Style	Neoclassic
Completed	1738

San Simeone Piccolo (also calledSan Simeone e Giuda) is a church in thesestiere ofSanta Croce inVenice, northernItaly. From across theGrand Canal it faces the railroad terminal serving as entrypoint for most visitors to the city.

Built in 1718–38 byGiovanni Antonio Scalfarotto, the church shows the emergingeclecticism ofNeoclassical architecture. It accumulates academic architectural quotations, much like the contemporaneousKarlskirche inVienna. Wittkower, in his monograph,^[1] acknowledges San Simeone is modeled on thePantheon with a temple-frontpronaos, on the other hand, the peaked dome recallsLonghena's more embellished and prominentSanta Maria della Salute church. The centralized circular church design and the metal dome recallsByzantine models andSan Marco, though the numerous centrifugal chapels are characteristic ofPost-Tridentine churches.

This was one of the last churches built in Venice, in one of its poorersestieri.

The pediment of the entrance has a marble relief depicting "The Martyrdom of the Saints" byFrancesco Penso, known as "il Cabianca." Saint Simon was apparently the martyred cousin of Christ, martyred as a Jew by the Romans.

The mass is celebratedaccording to the 1962 Roman Missal by thePriestly Fraternity of St. Peter.

The church has a Neoclassic style, with an oval cup dome, specially designed with the intent of making the church seem larger than it actually is. It also goes slightly underground, where there lies some religious depictions and paintings. Around the interior of San Simeone Piccolo there are several altar rooms, notorious for minor operas. On these altars some other artworks byAntonio Marinetti,Francesco Polazzo, and others. Today, some parts of the building are forbidden from public visitation.

San Simeon Piccolo's Church

• Roman Catholic churches in Venice
• 18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
• Roman Catholic churches completed in 1738
• Neoclassical architecture in Venice
• Churches used by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
• Centralized-plan churches in Italy
• Neoclassical church buildings in Italy

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