Girolamo da Santacroce [SEP] place of death
Girolamo da Santacroce
Girolamo da Santacroce (c. 1480/85 – c. 1556) was a 16th-century Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Venice and the Venetian mainland.
Life and work.
Girolamo da Santacroce was born in Bergamo. He became in Venice a pupil of the painter Gentile Bellini. On Gentile's death in 1507, he was left in Gentile's will half of the Oriental drawings made be Gentile. Santacroce then most likely worked as an assistant in the workshops of Giovanni Bellini and Cima
Resurrection" by Girolamo da Santacroce. The church has a "Risen Christ" altarpiece by Santacroce. The sacristy ceiling is frescoed by Antonio Zanchi and Domenico Bruni.
The organ was constructed by Pietro Nachini and restored by Gaetano Callido. The first altar on the right has a "St Cecilia and St Lorenzo Giustiniani" by Giovanni Segala.
The church contains the funereal monument of Doge Francesco Erizzo designed by Mattia Carnero in 1633. The next altar towards the presbytery contains the canvas of "Holy Family with St Mark and