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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/07/2026 20:30:00

A small confraternity hall in the Castello sestiere housing a complete cycle of nine paintings by Vittore Carpaccio, executed between 1502 and 1507, depicting the lives of Saints George, Tryphonius, and Jerome. The Schiavoni (Dalmatian Slavs) who founded this scuola in 1451 commissioned Carpaccio to decorate their meeting hall with narrative paintings that remain in their original positions on the walls of the ground-floor sala -- an exceptionally rare survival of a complete Renaissance pictoria...