Scuola Grande di San Rocco

The Scuola Grande di San Rocco is the best preserved of the six major Scuole (literally "schools" ) of Venice, located in the district ( Sestriere ) San Polo, near the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. It is mainly famous for its rich décor and features paintings by Jacopo Tintoretto, the two decades occupied the painter and among his greatest masterpieces.

History

The Scuola is named after Saint Roch of Montpellier. It was founded after the plague of 1477 of two brotherhoods. The Brotherhood of St. Roch of Montpellier had its first seat first in the Church of San Zulian, later in Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari and in 1478 officially recognized for the purpose of nursing. 1485 reached the relics of St. Roch, who was buried in Montpellier, south of France in the possession of the Brotherhood.

In the 15th century, the Brotherhood was due to the relics of St. Roch soon became very wealthy. After much back and forth to the School moved its headquarters to its current location. Banca della Scuola decided to build a worthy seat which was to become one of the most famous squares in Venice, Campo di San Rocco, which is bounded by the Scuola and the churches of San Rocco and Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. Thanks to the prosperity of the Brotherhood, it was decided to decorate the rooms of the Scuola appropriate.

1489, the foundation stone for the church of San Rocco has been laid. 1517 was the construction of the fraternity house under Bartolomeo Bon II, procurator of San Marco, started. He was succeeded in 1524 Sante Lombardo, Tullio Lombardo's son as a construction manager. From 1527 until his death took over Antonio Abbondi called Scarpagnino, construction management, and built the staircase. 1550 Gian Giacomo de ' Grigi was commissioned to design the facade expensive to compete with the under construction Scuola Grande della Misericordia can. The facades of both buildings were remodeled 1765-1771 once again by Macaruzzi.

The Scuola Grande di San Rocco escaped to insistent requests of citizens as one of the arranged resolution of all of Napoleon scuole. She had the late 18th century about 350 Kapitularordensbrüder and an annual income of 60,000 ducats. Your capital, which included a value of well over a million ducats at this time was 1797 - was stolen by the French - like all other Venetian capitals.

The halls of the Scuola

The Scuola Grande di San Rocco has two floors, the built by a magnificent staircase, 1544-1546 under the builder Scarpagnino, are connected together. The first of the two floors consisting exclusively of the Sala terrene. The second floor is divided into the large Sala Superiore and in the smaller Sala dell'Albergo. The Sala Superiore is equipped with 24 reliefs with scenes from the life of Saint Roch of Montpellier.

The entire Scuola was, with the exception of the staircase, between 1564 to 1588 by Jacopo Tintoretto, since 1565, himself a member of the Brotherhood, embellished with a consisting of 56 paintings series of paintings with scenes from the Old and New Testaments, which served the brothers as catechesis. In addition, the School has two early works by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( The angel comes to help and Hagar and Ishmael, Abraham is visited by the angels ) and the picture Christ Bearing the Cross, which is either Titian or Giorgione attributed.

Sala terrene

The images Jacopo Tintoretto in this room have scenes from the life of Mary and the childhood of Jesus the subject.

  • Annunciation
  • Adoration of the Magi
  • Flight to Egypt
  • Massacre of the Innocents
  • Presentation in the Temple
  • Assumption
  • St. Mary Magdalene
  • St. Mary of Egypt

Next here is a statue of St. Roch by Girolamo Campagna.

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