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Jacopo Sansovino (1486-1570) designed it and also directed the work while the façade was later restored by Andrea Palladio (1508-80). The drawing depicts the façade which has a tall main door surmounted by a domed pediment and a cornice supported by two Corinthian columns with a compartmented bow window above. Four larger Corinthian columns supported the pediment that completes the roof above a cornice with Latin inscription and a carved eagle enclosed in a tondo. Two niches with full-length statues are situated on each side of the door. The façade has also two receding lateral wing surmounted by a half pediment each, supported by Corinthian columns. \r\n\r\nAntonio Visentini (Venice, 21 Nov 1688 – Venice, 26 June 1782) was an Italian painter, engraver, architect and theorist. He was first known as a painter and trained with the Venetian history painter Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (1675-1741). He became known as an engraver by the end of the 1720s when he was commissioned by Joseph Smith to produce engravings of Canaletto’s views of Venice. Visentini started working as an architect in 1731, and his first theoretical work, <i>Libro di Architettura</i>, which included Rococo-influenced drawings by Pier Antonio Morelli after Visentini’s ideas, was published in 1733. \r\n\r\nHis ideas on contemporary architecture derived from Antiquity and the work of Andrea Palladio (1508-80). Later however, Visentini developed neo-Palladian and anti-Baroque ideas. Visentini and his pupils executed numerous drawings of ancient and contemporary buildings intended to disseminate exemplary architecture. He participated to the foundation of the Venetian Academy in 1755, where he became a teacher of architectural perspective in 1772.","physicalDescription":"Drawing of the church t.S Francesco della Vigna, in pen and ink and watercolour, on paper. It depicts the facade of the building with a Latin inscription on the base of the pediment and sculptures of figures dressed in classical drapery. 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