Santi Giovanni e Paolo

The Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, known in Venetian dialect as San Zanipolo, is one of Venice's largest churches and holds the rank of minor basilica. Its vast brick structure rises in the Italian Gothic style and served as the Dominicans' main church in the city, built to preach before large crowds. Its interior is crowded with funerary monuments to doges and other Venetian figures, alongside paintings such as Giovanni Bellini's Altarpiece of St. Vincent Ferrer, Lorenzo Lotto's Alms of Saint Anthoninus and Paolo Veronese's La Adoración de los pastores. Other notable works include Cima da Conegliano's Incoronation of the Virgin and Titian's The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr.