SCUOLA GRANDE DI SAN ROCCO
EXTERIOR
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If you're wondering why the palace before you is called a "School", you should know that "Schools" in Venice were actually social institutions and were enormously important for...
SALA DELL'ALBERGO
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Although the halls of the San Rocco School are a fine example of sixteenth-century architecture, your attention will immediately be drawn to the paintings of Tintoretto that cover the walls and...
UPPER HALL
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Now you're in the spectacular hall where the School's Council held its meetings. It is one of the most sumptuous Renaissance halls of the city: it's more than 43 meters long, 17 wide, and almost 10...
GROUND FLOOR
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You've now come back to the ground floor, right below the upper hall, in a room with slender columns that's beautiful but not very bright.
Almost twenty years after his first appearance here,...
