Particolare della facciata della Chiesa di San Zulian raffigurante Tommaso Rangone.

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The church of San Giuliano, Zulian in Venetian, is located a few steps away from St. Mark's Square but stands practically isolated.

In this church, the Serenissima allowed, for the first time, a sculpture to be erected to a man who was not a saint; in fact, the façade of this place of worship celebrates the physician Tommaso Rangone of Ravenna. No one before, neither doge, nor nobleman, nor military hero, succeeded in obtaining this privilege.

Place of worship titled to the martyr of Antioch San Giuliano, who with his wife Basilissa, was tortured in 304 in Alexandria.

The ancient church was erected for the first time in the 9th century and was destroyed and rebuilt several times; the last time this happened in the mid-sixteenth century thanks to the funding of the Ravenna doctor Tommaso Rangone, who obtained from the Serenissima to erect a statue that would represent him in the church. Until then, the Republic banned any type of cult of personality for which the year 1553, during which the church was erected, was a tu

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