Church
of St. John and St. Paul
This
Dominican church, one of the oldest in Venice,
was probably founded in 1234. Construction
was completed in 1368 to be followed by consecration
finally in 1430. The slender ogival forms of
its architecture make it a masterpiece of the
Venetian gothic. Adjoining the main building,
the facade of the Scuola Grande di San
Marco exemplifies the renaissance style. The work
of
Pietro Lombardo and Mauro Conducci, it was
completed between 1487 and 1496.
The area around
the Dominican church of St. John
and St. Paul with its monasteries and cloisters
has been preserved well, whilst the nearby
Scuola Grande di San Marco (Guild of Saint Mark),
is
now the premises of the city hospital (a new
building
for the civil hospital nearby the railway station
was designed in the 20th Century by modernist
master Le Corbusier). |
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