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.

Scuola Grande di San Rocco. Façade designed by Antonio Scarpagnino (c. 1505-49). The recently cleaned and restored Scuola contains the series of very large-scale religious paintings to which Tintoretto devoted almost a quarter century. One of them, The Annunciation, proved central in the work of Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites, particularly William Holman Hunt.

As all guidebooks and commentators seem to note, this magnificent building appears to have been crammed into its narrow little campo. Contrast the awkward siting of this building with that of another Scuola -- the Scuola di San Marco, of which Ruskin painted a watercolor in 1876.

Last modified October 2000