Italian painter, active in Venice. He was a pupil of the painter Leonardo Corona and later Palma Giovane. His main works are a Descent from the Cross for San Procolo in Venice, The defeat of the Saracens in the Doge’s Palace and the Gathering of the Manna in the church of the San Bartolome. Francesco Maffei, Matteo Ponzone, and Filippo Zanimberti were among his pupils.
The Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary was destroyed by fire in 1867. The restored chapel was reopened only in 1959. It is now decorated with many 16th-17th-century paintings originated from other Venetian churches and collections. Peranda’s painting belongs to this decoration.
The Sala dello Scrutinio (Voting Hall) is the second largest hall of the Doge’s Palace. The balloting and secret votes of the magistracies and the doge took place in this hall with the very complicated systems that the Venetian Republic had created to avoid intrigues and subterfuge during the elections and, above all, to ensure that the vote could not be bought especially from the poor nobility in favour of its richer equivalent.
The iconographic theme of the hall of the Sala dello Scrutinio was inspired by the Venetian naval victories on the Eastern seas shown in the numerous ceiling canvases depicting virtues and symbolic figures. Sante Peranda’s painting is on the wall of the Sala dello Scrutinio, it depicts the naval victory of the Venetians at Jaffa against the Egyptians.
