SCUOLA DI S. GIORGIO DEGLI SCHIAVONI, History

Hi, I'm Ed, your personal guide. Together with MyWoWo, I'd like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world.

Today I'll accompany you through the Scuola di San Giorgio, which contains some of the most beautiful paintings in Venice!

You are in the Castello district, in a somewhat farther-out area that, however, contains one of the city's artistic jewels: The Scuola di San Giorgio. This palace, known as the "degli Schiavoni" palace, was the reference point for Dalmatian residents in Venice; in fact, the word "Schiavoni" was used to define the inhabitants of Dalmatia and, more generally, the slaves of the Adriatic coast. The building was dedicated to the saints Jerome, George, and Tryphon, protagonists of the famous Carpaccio paintings you are about to admire. The three Saints have no connection to each other, yet the painter succeeded in giving a remarkable homogeneity to this cycle of paintings from the early 1500s....