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The Gesuati church, officially dedicated to Santa Maria del Rosario, was built between 1525 and 1536 by the Poor Gesuati order, which had arrived in Venice from Tuscany. After the suppression of Gesuati order, Dominicans bought the place and constructed the present church, bigger than the previous one. They commissioned Giorgio Massari, whose model for the new church was accepted in 1724.
The façade of the church rises above the busy, shifting waterfront on the Fondamenta delle Zattere, harmonizing with the Palladian buildings across the Giudecca Canal. The niches containing statues and the carved decorations are framed by giant Corinthian columns.
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