SCUOLA GRANDE SAN GIOVANNI EVANGELISTA 

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Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista di Venezia 
San Polo 2454  
30125 - Venice
T. +39 041 718234
info@scuolasangiovanni.it

* REDUCED: visitors up to 26 years in possession of a valid student card / visitors over 65 yrs
* * FREE: Children up to 12yrs, people with disabilities. [free tickets can only be collected at the exhibition ticket-office].

ADMISSION THROUGH VENEZIA UNICA:  
ONLY ON THE DAYS SHOWN IN THE CALENDAR [see calendar] 
By booking through Venezia Unica, it is mandatory to choose the date of the visit, based on the availability in the calendar.
From h. 9.30am to h. 1.00pm / From h. 2.00pm to h. 5.30pm

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€ 10,00 FULL / € 8,00 REDUCED (students under 26 years / over 65 years)

It is a monumental complex with illustrious examples of Venetian Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture

The monumental complex of the Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista is the result of a centuries-old succession of architectural and decorative interventions which, starting from a first limited building in the mid-fourteenth century, gradually expanded with the increasing devotional and economic importance of the School. A first reconstruction followed the acquisition, in 1369, of the prestigious Relic of the Cross, while during the fifteenth century, in an enlarged building, the external intervention of Pietro Lombardo and that of the Scalone, noble access to the Chapter House, by Mauro were inserted. Codussi, leading architects of the Venetian proto-Renaissance. The grandiose cycle of canvases with the Miracles of the Cross by Vittore Carpaccio, Gentile Bellini and other artists, which adorned the decorative apparatus of the Oratory of the Cross, dates from the end of the century; from the mid-sixteenth century is the canvas by Titian for the ceiling of the Sala dell’Albergo, works unfortunately no longer present in the School. The last important architectural changes in the Chapter House and in the east and west extensions were made by Giorgio Massari in the first half of the eighteenth century.

The Museum of the Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista is an architectural complex consisting of the school building, the church of the same name, the ancient cemetery and the two external squares. Still the seat of the lay brotherhood founded in 1261, the Scuola Grande building is spread over two floors and embraces different architectural styles, from the Gothic and Renaissance to the Baroque. Reason of great interest is the architecture: the entrance portal to the outside, the double Renaissance staircase by Mauro Codussi and the majestic Chapter Room by Giorgio Massari, on the main floor, stand out. The ground floor houses a lapidarium of great historical interest while the first floor houses numerous canvases by Venetian artists commissioned by the School itself over the centuries. These include Palma il Giovane, Tintoretto, Tiepolo, Longhi. 

The School has kept a precious reliquary since 1369, a masterpiece of Venetian Gothic jewelery, containing two fragments of the True Cross, which gave rise to one of the most important Venetian pictorial cycles - The Miracles of the Cross - and subsequent architectural extensions.

The Church, founded in 960 as a private chapel of the Badoer family, preserves a precious organ from 1760 by Giovanni Battista Piaggia. The adjacent cemetery is a rare example of a burial place, painted at the end of the 15th century by Lazzaro Bastiani.
 The Museum opens its doors to the public only on days when the usual congress activity does not take place (see calendar).

SCUOLA GRANDE SAN GIOVANNI EVANGELISTA   BUY NOW     PRICE € 10,00 (vat included) FULL ticket   € 8,00 (vat included) REDUCED ticket (visitors up to 26 years in possession of a valid student card, over 65 years) FREE ENTRANCE (Children up to 12 years, people with disabilities) free tickets can only be collected at the exhibition ticket-office When: ADMISSION THROUGH VENEZIA UNICA ONLY ON THE DAYS SHOWN IN THE CALENDAR [see calendar] Adress: San Polo 2454 / 30125 - Venice   AVAILABLE DATES Available Dates OCTOBER 2024 05 06 07 17 20* 24 25* 31               NOVEMBER 2024 01 02 03 04 08 09 10 11 16* 17 18 22 23* 24* 25 DECEMBER 2024 12 13 14* 15* 16 20 21* 22 27 28 29 30 31*     JANUARY 2025 02 03 04 05 06                     OPENING TIME: h 9.30am - 1.00pm / 2.00pm - 5.30pm ( * ) Opening Time ONLY h 9.30am - 1.00pm  ( * * ) Opening Time ONLY h 2.00pm - 5.30pm