Scuola di San Rocco

On the Scuola di San Rocco (Next to San Polo 3118, correspondence address San Polo 3052, Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav. 27) see:

Bit Book p.35bL on panelled roses;

Gothic Book p.14 on classical ornament;

Notebook M2 p.79, where it is said to be ‘one of the most interesting examples of Renaissance work in Venice.

At Notebook M2 p.110, where it is associated with the Palazzo Vendramin Calergi Ruskin remarks on the form of the tracery of both. At Verona Book p.23 and Verona Book p.40 both are used as examples of the translation of Gothic into Renaissance.

Scuola Grande di San Rocco to the left, and Church of San Rocco to the right Photograph by George P. Landow, October 2000. It may be used for any scholarly or educational purpose without permission, as long as the previous credit appears.

The visual difference between the Scuola di San Rocco and the Frari is emphasised by their closeness to each other:

Apse of the church of the Frari to the left, and base and fluted column of the Scuola di San Rocco to the right

There is a version of the passage at Notebook M2 p.79 published at Works, 9.471 - and compare Works, 9.344. For the style of decoration see Works, 8.175f and Works, 9.70; Works, 9.392 on the merit of putting bad decoration where we should least expect to find it; Works, 11.403 for a brief summary of Ruskin’s views of its architecture (and a lengthy account of its paintings) in the Venetian Index. There are useful summaries of its complex building history between 1516 and 1549 and its “uniquely Venetian” forms in Howard (2002) pp.156-159 and in Tafuri (1995) chapter 4.

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