One of the reasons for this is Longhena’s use of white and grey interior. It truly gives you a sense of depth and space inside. Taking a look inside while admiring the central Octagon, we see that the seven chapels and high altar seem even deeper than they really are. It will be a location that will never be unnoticed! Basilica of Santa Maria Della Salute by Baldassarre Longhena is one of the most famous religious buildings in Venice, wittingly built at the entrance bank of the Grand Canal. Incredibly, almost as if it were a theatre, the columns and arches are placed so as to guide the visitor’s eyes to the smaller chapels and other units of design. All in all, there are nearly 100 statues around this church which included works of Josse the Court, Francesco Cavrioli, Michele Ungaro, and Tommaso Ruer. These seemingly small details give the Salute a very lively and festive appeal. This unique shape is made obvious from the exterior (and made more observable once viewed from a higher angle), marked by the smaller Palladian-style facades of the chapels and the wonderful scroll. The ideal of a centralized domed temple was a Renaissance favorite, but Longhena was the first architect since the early Middle Ages to centralize his temple in the form of an octagon surrounded by an ambulatory. Starting from the top, the balustrade and the cupola, although imposing, lighten the whole exterior of the basilica.
The main door is only open on the Salute’s Feast Day every November 21. Taking a closer look, we see the main facade, emphasized by its wide staircase, which highlights the immense portal or main door which is framed by heavy columns and crowned with a tympanum, numerous statues and multiple volutes - it resembles a triumphal arch-design.
Located just at the entrance to the Grand Canal, it immediately gives the onlooker a perfect sense of theatrical timing and spacing as it rises from columns of white and pastel orange to greet the hundreds of boats coming in and out of the city.
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