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Venetian painters and Dalmatian patrons: minor masters in the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni

The decoration of the sala superiore of the Scuola di San Giorgio e Trifone, initiated in 1586 and executed throughout the final decades of the 16th and the first half of the 17th century, coincided with a period of economic prosperity of the Dalmatian confraternity and its members. The extensive decorative campaign included the construction of wooden stalls along the sides of the meeting hall, coffered ceiling with figures of the confraternity’s patron saints, and a series of paintings placed above the stalls featuring religious compositions complemented by portraits of confraternity members. The ambitious decorative programme of the sala superiore, which must be considered in the light of the scuola’s status of a “small” confraternity (scuola piccola), reflects not only collective aspirations of the Dalmatian community within the vibrant Venetian society, but also individual desires of its members to leave a permanent mark in the history of their confraternity. Subject matter of canvases adorning the sala superiore reveal an eagerness to provide an unambiguous visual connection with the confraternity members’ Dalmatian origin, but their stylistic features remain strongly linked to the Venetian painterly tradition of the 16th and early 17th century. The paper seeks to address certain attributive problems related to individual paintings in the Scuola di San Giorgio e Trifone, as well as assess the decorative campaign of the sala superiore in the context of similar endeavours commissioned by Venetian confraternities in the same period.

painting, Venice, Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni

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