Sant'Agnese, Romanesque church in Venice, Italy.

Sant'Agnese is a church in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, near the Gesuati church. Its interior keeps a three-nave plan, but was rebuilt in 1939 and is now bare brick with exposed wooden trusses. A modern glass-tessera mosaic fills the apse wall, and behind the altar hangs Ernani Costantini's fresco The Last Supper, painted in 1968.

Founded between the 10th and 11th centuries, the church is first documented in the late 11th century. Gothic and Baroque alterations followed; Jacopo de' Barbari's 1500 map shows a Gothic portico before the facade, since vanished. Closed under the Napoleonic decrees of 1810, it reopened in the mid-19th century as the oratory of the Istituto Cavanis, and a 1939 reconstruction erased the last remains of the old building.

The church is the private chapel of the adjacent Cavanis convent and school, though Sunday services are open to the public. It holds the remains of the Venerable Marco and Antonio Cavanis, founders of the congregation. The 14th-century painter Stefano Veneziano signed works of 1364 and 1381 as plebanus, parish priest, of Sant'Agnese.

Sant'Agnese stands in Dorsoduro, its facade separated from the former Jesuit convent by the Rio Terà Antonio Foscarini, while the south side and apse face Campo Sant'Agnese. The north side connects to the Cavanis convent and school, of which it is the private chapel; Sunday services are open to the public. Look for the simple bell gable that replaced the old bell tower.

The painter Stefano Veneziano signed works in 1364 and 1381 as plebanus, parish priest of Sant'Agnese; a Virgin and Child is now in the Museo Correr and a Coronation of the Virgin in the Gallerie dell'Accademia. The church also keeps the remains of Marco and Antonio Cavanis, founders of the Cavanis congregation.