Scuola Grande di San Rocco

Date: 1515-1560
Image View Description: Interior: View of Staircase Looking Up To Main Hall
Creator: Abbondi, Antonio di Pietro (Venetian architect, ca. 1465-1549)
Material/Technique: brick
, Material/Technique: marble
Material/Technique 2: oil on canvas
Work Type: architecture
Work Type 2: painting
Culture: Italian
Culture: Venetian
Subject: The Virgin Appears to the Plague-Stricken, 1666 (right)
Location: Venice (Italy)
Notes: Looking up the stairwell toward Main Hall from the landing. Right side painting is by Antonio Zanchi while the left is by Pietro Negri. These paintings date from the century after Tintoretto completed his painting cycles for the Scuola, and reflect the arrival of Baroque styling to Venetian painting. Both paintings depict the 1631 plague which decimated Venice and resulted in the building of Santa Maria della Salute, shown in the background of Negri's work. The Zanchi is signed.
Image Source: Photography by the Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology, © The Trustees of Columbia University
Photographer: Cassy Juhl
Record ID: ven_scuola_grande_san_rocco_stair_1


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