Scuola di San Marco, Venice, Italy


Related people
Mauro Codussi (architect)
Pietro Lombardo (architect)
Jacopo Tintoretto (painter)
Date
1260 (original creation);1485 (destroyed in fire);1485-1505 (rebuilt);1819 (became an Austrian military hospital)
Location
Europe->Italy->Veneto->Venezia->Venice
Description
The Scuola Grande di San Marco is a building in Venice, Italy. It originally was the home to one of the six major sodalities or Scuole Grandi of Venice. It faces the Campo San Giovanni e Paolo, one of the largest squares in the city. This building is now the City Hospital.
Style/Period
15th Century (1400 - 1499 CE)
Renaissance
Material
stone and/or rock
Source
Paoletti, P. (1929). La Scuola grande di San Marco. Venice: Libreria emiliana editrice. p. 21