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An altarpiece for the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni: Matteo Ponzone's "St George, St Jerome and St Tryphon" in the church of Madonna dell'Orto in Venice

Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni (Scuola Dalmata dei SS. Giorgio e Trifone), one of the numerous scuole piccole in Venice, gathered immigrants from the eastern coast of the Adriatic (mainly Dalmatian territories under Venetian rule), in Italy commonly referred to as Schiavoni. On the occasion of its foundation in 1451, the Scuola obtained the right to erect an altar dedicated to its patron saints George and Tryphon in the church of San Giovanni del Tempio. In the first decades of the 17th century their altar, mentioned by Boschini and later writers as "di Casa Stefani", was adorned by an altarpiece by Matteo Ponzone (today in the church of Madonna dell'Orto), a painter long considered "dalmatino" or "schiavone". Although the question of Ponzone's birthplace was resolved by the discovery of the act of baptism dated 3 November 1583 in Venice and other archival records which mention him as "Venetus", his kinship to the Dalmatian-born Archbishop of Split Marco Antonio de Dominis (succeeded at the archiepiscopal see by the painter's brother Sforza in 1616) might have provided the right prerequisites for the commission of the altarpiece for the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, just as family ties encouraged his documented activity in Dalmatia from 1635 to the early 1640s. The iconography of Ponzone's altarpiece for the church of San Giovanni del Tempio depicting the confraternity's patron saints George, Tryphon and Jerome represents a distinct statement of Dalmatian identity which the Scuola strived to preserve within the multicultural Venetian society.

Matteo Ponzone ; altarpiece ; Venice ; Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni

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