Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo

This guide to the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice follows Bartolomeo Colleoni, a hired general who left the Republic a fortune in 1475 on one condition: a bronze equestrian statue in the heart of Piazza San Marco. You'll hear how Venice took the money and then found a lawyer's trick to break its word, and about the sculptors who competed for the commission after. It also opens the basilica itself, the Dominican burial ground of twenty-five doges, and a fire that once tore through one of its chapels.