Scuola Grande di San Marco
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The Scuola Grande di San Marco in Venice is a building of the early Venetian Renaissance next to the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo. Today the building is the main entrance of the hospital Ospedale Civile SS Giovanni e Paolo di Venezia.
History
The Scuola was the seat of a brotherhood, which was founded in 1260. Originally, the Brotherhood had its headquarters in the church of Santa Croce, in their place today Papadopoli are. 1437 pulled the Brotherhood in the Scuola Grande di San Marco. The word Scuola in this context means not "school" in terms of " learning institution", but is a term for guilds and brotherhoods with charitable and spiritual tasks. The Scuola Grande di San Marco was one of the six major fraternity houses. On March 30, 1485 the original building was destroyed by fire. The still existing building was built in the style of the early Venetian Renaissance. Pietro Lombardo began construction 1488-1490, Mauro Codussi led him away to 1495 and finished the facade and the large internal staircase. The Lombardo family was officially no longer involved, but continued to deliver ornaments and sculptures on Codussi. The building behergte the Scuola until the early 19th century up to the Scuola Grande di San Rocco all fraternities were dissolved by Napoleon. 1808 the building was first converted to an Austrian military hospital, since 1819, the building houses a civilian hospital. The valuable stairs indoors house were destroyed during conversion. During the First World War, the Sala di San Marco was destroyed. 2000 to 2004 the facade was renovated.
Architecture
Facade and exterior architecture
The facade is divided into two sections, each with its own entrance. With aedicules and pilasters, the building is a jewel of the early Renaissance. Famous the facade is because of the great reliefs of illusionistic polychrome marble inlays that will give the impression of open, aligned in the depth halls.
The marble decoration and the reliefs of the lower part (two Leoni Marciani and Storie di San Marco) are attributed to the Lombardo family. The main entrance is decorated with columns and in his Archivolte there is a bezel with the relief of San Marco venerato dai confratelli (San Marco worshiped by the brothers ), the Bartolomeo Bon is attributed.
Interior
The basement consists of a large, all jewelery undressed entrance hall of the double-flight staircase leads up to a large. It is a reconstruction of the 19th century. The original, designed by Condussi, was destroyed during the conversion to a hospital. The passage to the presence, behind the Scuola Hospital there was not until the early 19th century. Right next to the main entrance led a second entrance to the former administrative offices of the Scuola.
Upstairs, where today is the medical library, located in the main auditorium and the so-called Sala del albergo, with magnificent gilded coffered ceilings. The other covers were richly painted, in contrast to the ceiling paintings of unresolved Scuola Grande San Rocco paintings, however, were lost upon dissolution of the Brotherhood. Some paintings by Jacopo Palma ( the old man ), Jacopo Palma ( the boy ), Domenico Tintoretto, Vittore Belliniano and Padovanino were brought back into the building, while others (for example, by Giovanni Bellini and Jacopo Tintoretto ) are now in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence or in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.