Santa Maria dei Miracoli Church

The masterpiece of Pietro Lombardo and one of the greatest Early Renaissance structures in Venice, the marvelous Church of dei Miracoli was built between 1481 and 1489 upon commission of Angelo Amadi, who intended it to hold an image of the Virgin and Child and Two Saints in his possession - an image which, after Pope Sextus IV's declaration of the Cult of the Immaculate Conception, had been declared miraculous. The church is of a sentimental value for the Venetians On the altar stands Nicolò di Pietro's supposedly miraculous image of the Virgin and Child (14th-15th century).