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[[Image:Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (2) Venezia 2006-08-30.JPG|thumb|300px|West front & Belltower.]]
The '''Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari''', usually just called the '''Frari''', is one of the greatest churches of [[Venice]] and has the status of a [[minor basilica]]. It stands on the Campo dei Frari at the heart of the [[San Polo]] district of the city. The church is dedicated to the [[Assumption of Mary|Assumption]] (Assunzione della Beata Virgine).
The [[Franciscans]] were granted land to build a church in [[1250]], but the building was not completed until [[1338]]. Work almost immediately began on its much larger replacement, the current church, which took over a century to build. The [[campanile]], the second tallest in the city after that of [[San Marco di Venezia|San Marco]], was completed in [[1396]].
The imposing edifice is built of [[brick]], and is one of the city's three notable churches built in the [[Italian Gothic architecture|Italian Gothic]] style. As with many Venetian churches, the exterior is rather plain. The interior contains the only [[rood screen]] still in place in Venice.
The Frari is a parish church of the Vicariate of San Polo-Santa Croce-Dorsoduro. The other churches of the parish are San Barnaba, San Ludovico Vescovo, Santa Maria del Soccorso and Santa Margherita.
==Works of art==
[[Image:Santa Maria gloriosa dei Frari.jpg|thumb|320px|High altar showing [[Assumption of the Virgin (Titian)|Titian's Assumption]]]]
* [[Giovanni Bellini]], ''Madonna and Child with SS [[Nicholas of Bari]], Peter, Mark and Benedict'', the sacristy altarpiece
* [[Bartolomeo Bon]]'s workshop, figures of the Virgin and St Francis on the west front
* [[Antonio Bregno|Antonio]] and [[Paolo Bregno]], tomb of Doge Francesco Fóscari in the chancel (attributed; may actually be by [[Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino]])
* [[Lorenzo Bregno]]
**tomb of Benedetto Pésaro above the sacristy door
**tomb of Alvise Pasqualino on the west wall
* [[Girolamo Campagna]], statuettes of ''St Anthony of Padua'' and ''St Agnes'' on the water stoups in the nave
* [[Marco Cozzi]], choir stalls in ritual choir
* [[Donatello]], figure of ''St John the Baptist'' in the first south choir chapel, Donatello's first documented work in Venice
* [[Tullio Lombardo]], tomb of Pietro Bernardo on the west wall (attributed; may actually be by [[Giovanni Buora]])
* [[Antonio Rizzo]], tomb of Doge Niccolò Tron in the chancel
* [[Jacopo Sansovino]], damaged figure of ''St John the Baptist'' on the font in the Corner Chapel
* [[Titian]]
**''[[Assumption of the Virgin (Titian)|Assumption]]'', the altarpiece of the high altar and the largest altarpiece in Venice
**''[[Pesaro Madonna]]'' on the north wall of the nave
* [[Paolo Veneziano]], ''Doge Francesco Dandolo and His Wife Presented to the Virgin by SS Francis and Elizabeth'' in the sacristy
* [[Alessandro Vittoria]]
**figure of ''The Risen Christ'' on the west front
**figure of ''St Jerome'' on the south wall of the nave
* [[Alvise Vivarini]], ''St Ambrose and other Saints'' in the north transept chapel, his last work
* [[Bartolomeo Vivarini]]
**''St. Mark Enthroned'' in the Capella Corner in the north transept
**''Madonna and Child with Saints'', altarpiece in the third south choir chapel
==Funerary monuments==
* [[Francesco Barbaro]] (1390–1454) humanist and senator.
* [[Pietro Bernardo]] (d.[[1538]]) (senator)
* [[Antonio Canova]] (only his heart is buried here; the tomb, realised by his disciples, is based on the drawing of Canova himself for an unrealised tomb for [[Titian]])
* [[Federico Corner]]
* [[Doge of Venice|Doge]] [[Francesco Dandolo]] (in the chapter house)
* Doge [[Francesco Foscari]] (d.[[1457]])
* [[Jacopo Marcello]]
* [[Claudio Monteverdi]] one of the greatest composers of the 17th Century
* [[Beato Pacifico]] (founder of the current church)
* [[Alvise Pasqualino]] (d.[[1528]]) (Procurator of Venice)
* [[Benedetto Pésaro]] (d.[[1503]]) (general)
* Doge [[Giovanni Pésaro]]
* Bishop [[Jacopo Pésaro]] (d.[[1547]])
* [[Paolo Savelli]] ([[condottiere]]) (the first Venetian monument to include an equestrian statue)
* [[Titian]] (d. [[1576]])
* [[Melchiorre Trevisan]] (d.[[1500]]) (general)
* Doge [[Niccolò Tron]]
==External links==
*[http://www.paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Venice%20&%20N%20Italy/Venice/I%20Frari.htm Adrian Fletcher's Paradoxplace Venice Pages – I Frari (photos)]
==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Frari02.jpg|Another of the Altar and 'The Assumption'.
Image:Frari01.jpg|The West Front.
Image:Venezia santa maria gloriosa1.JPG|The Interior.
</gallery>
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