Murano: San Pietro Martire

The monastic church of San Pietro Martire was built between 1363 and 1413, on the strength of a legacy from Marco Michiel. The church, which belonged to the Dominican order, was rebuilt and enlarged after a fire in 1474. It was consecrated in 1511. Suppressed in 1806, it reopened as a parish church in 1813. 

San Pietro Martire is entered through a fine Renaissance portal. The interior takes the form of a broad nave with two aisles. At the east end is a barrel-vaulted chancel.

In the right aisle hangs a beautiful painting of the Virgin and Child with Saints (signed and dated, 1488) by Giovanni Bellini. The painting was originally commissioned by Doge Agostino Barbarigo (r. 1486-1501) for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, where two of his daughters were nuns. 

The campanile, which is capped with an 'onion' cupola, was built between 1498 and 1502.

​One side of the convent's cloister survives along with a well-head, dated 1346. 
The church of San Pietro Martire, Murano
San Pietro Martire
The 'pala Barbarigo' by Giovanni Bellini, San Pietro Martire, Murano
The 'Barbarigo Altarpiece' by Giovanni Bellini, 1488