Scuola Grande di San Marco - Venice, Italy
N 45° 26.373 E 012° 20.480
33T E 292065 N 5035219
This frieze can be found on The Venice Italy Municipal Hospital. The building originally served as a 15th century Renaissance monastery.
Waymark Code: WMEW52
Location: Veneto, Italy
Date Posted: 07/12/2012
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"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.
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.
Three of the greatest Italian explorers of the fifteenth century: Giosafat Barbaro, Ambrogio Contarini, and Alvise da Mosto were members of the Scuola.
In 1819 it became an Austrian military hospital. It is now a civil hospital."(quoted from wikipedia.org)
Artist: Mauro Codussi
Address:
Rio dei Mendicanti, 6776, 30122, Venezia, Italy
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