Scuola Grande San Marco
Scuola Grande San Marco stands beside Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, one of Venice’s largest squares. Its marble façade combines Renaissance symmetry with Byzantine echoes. White and polychrome statues fill decorated niches, while trompe-l'œil portals deepen the ground floor.
Founded in 1260 as a charitable confraternity, the building was rebuilt after fire destroyed its predecessor in 1485. Pietro Lombardo designed the reconstruction, and Mauro Codussi completed the façade. After serving as an Austrian military hospital and then a civil hospital, it became a museum in 2013.
Medical books, surgical instruments, archives, and a Napoleonic-era pharmacy trace Venetian healthcare across centuries. Records reach back to 1094, while the pathological anatomy collection began in 1874. A wooden Christ watches over the San Domenico library, where tradition says it survived a First World War bombing.
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