San Zulian Site Features

The Rangone monument

The bronze figure above the door is the point of the whole facade. Tommaso Rangone, a physician who had made a fortune from a syphilis treatment, paid for the church front on the explicit condition that he be commemorated on it -- seated, in a scholar's robe, holding a book, with Greek and Hebrew inscriptions and the medicinal plants of his practice carved around him. The Senate had already refused him a similar monument elsewhere; here he simply bought the wall.

Veronese's altarpiece

St Mark, St James, St Jerome and the Dead Christ Supported by Angels, painted in 1581-82 for the altar of the Strazzaroli, the rag and cloth dealers' guild, remains in the church it was made for -- unusual in a city whose altarpieces were mostly dispersed to museums.

Palma il Giovane's ceiling

The nave ceiling carries an allegorical cycle on the Passion and the triumph of St Julian, completed within a decade of the 1580 consecration, so interior and decoration belong to a single moment rather than accumulating over centuries.