Vista da Scuola Grande di San Marco, Veneza, Itália (View of the Scuola Grande di San Marco) - Francesco Zanin
Veneza - Itália
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OST - 44x65 - 1862
The Scuola Grande di San Marco is a building in Venice, Italy, designed by
the well-known Venetian architects Pietro
Lombardo, Mauro Codussi, and Bartolomeo
Bon. It was originally the home to one of the Scuole Grandi of Venice, or six major confraternities,
but is now the city's hospital. It faces the Campo San Giovanni e Paolo, one of the
largest squares in the city.
The edifice was built by the Confraternity of San Marco in 1260
to act as its seat. In 1485, however, it was destroyed by a large fire, and
rebuilt in the following twenty years under a new design by Pietro
Lombardo, with a fund established by the members. The façade, a masterwork
with delicately decorated niches and pilasters, and with white or polychrome
marble statues, was later completed by Mauro
Codussi. While decorated with the polished marble elements of Renaissance classicism,
the proliferation of arches and niches adds a retrogressive Byzantine flavor,
an architectural feature of many conservative Venetian styles. One of the most
notable aspects of the façade is the use of trompe-l'œil archways
and portals on the ground floor, all executed in different types of marble.
Three of the greatest Italian explorers of the fifteenth
century: Giosafat Barbaro, façade, and Alvise
da Mosto were members of the Scuola.
Jacopo Tintoretto furnished the Scuola with
three paintings Miracle of the Slave (also
known as The Miracle of St. Mark, 1548), St Mark's Body Brought to Venice,
painted between 1562 and 1566, both paintings are currently housed in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, and Finding of the body of St Mark also
painted between 1562 and 1566, an now held in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
In 1819 it became an Austrian military
hospital. It is now a civil hospital.
Since 2013 it is part of the Polo
Museale della Scuola Grande di San Marco.
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