Description
The Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni is the seat of the confraternity of Venice's Dalmatians, in the Castello sestiere: a small, intimate hall whose walls are covered by a cycle of paintings by Vittore Carpaccio, still in the building they were made for.
The canvases, painted between 1502 and 1507, run all around the ground-floor hall. The most famous is Saint George and the Dragon, more than three and a half meters wide. Then come the Triumph of Saint George, the stories of Saint Jerome and Saint Augustine in His Study.
Upstairs is the Sala dell'Albergo, with its painted wooden ceiling.
The Schiavoni were the Dalmatians, sailors and workers from the other shore of the Adriatic. Their scuola, founded in 1451, is still active, and it is one of the very few that kept their treasures intact under Napoleon.
The canvases, painted between 1502 and 1507, run all around the ground-floor hall. The most famous is Saint George and the Dragon, more than three and a half meters wide. Then come the Triumph of Saint George, the stories of Saint Jerome and Saint Augustine in His Study.
Upstairs is the Sala dell'Albergo, with its painted wooden ceiling.
The Schiavoni were the Dalmatians, sailors and workers from the other shore of the Adriatic. Their scuola, founded in 1451, is still active, and it is one of the very few that kept their treasures intact under Napoleon.