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Scuola Di San Giorgio Degli Schiavoni
Venice's Dalmatian community established this religious school in the 15th century and the building was erected in the 16th century. The main attraction is on the ground floor, where the walls are graced by a series of superb paintings by Vittore Carpaccio depicting events in the lives of the three patron saints of Dalmatia: George, Tryphone and Jerome.
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Scuola Grande Dei Carmini
Just before you bump into the church of the same name at the southwest end of Campo Santa Margherita, you pass this scuola (literally, school; religious confraternity), with numerous paintings by Tiepolo and others. Tiepolo's nine ceiling paintings in the Salone Superiore (Upper Hall) depict the virtues surrounding the Virgin in Glory.
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Scuola Grande Di San Giovanni Evangelista
Hidden behind what is to all intents an open-air iconostasis, and thus set back from the street, is one of the six major Venetian scuole . The plan is typical of the big schools, with an assembly hall (divided in two by a line of columns) and a grand staircase up to the 1st-floor hall, which contains an altar used for religious services. Codussi designed the original interior and Renaissance staircase, and Massari restyled the main hall in 1727.
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Scuola Grande Di San Marco
Standing at right angles to the Chiesa dei SS Giovanni e Paolo is the eye-catching marble frontage of this scuola . Pietro Lombardo and his sons all worked on what was once one of the most important of Venice's religious confraternities. Codussi put the finishing touches on this Renaissance gem.
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Scuola Grande di San Rocco
Scarpagnino's Renaissance façade (exhibiting a hint of the baroque to come), with its white-marble columns and overbearing magnificence, seems uncomfortably squeezed into the tight space of the narrow square below it. Whatever you make of the exterior of this scuola dedicated to St Roch, nothing can prepare you for what lies inside.
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Telecom Future Centre
Set up in the 15th-century cloisters of the adjacent Chiesa di San Salvador, this interactive museum of the future shows us how we might communicate decades from now - a little science-fiction fantasy in the heart of the venerable historic city. See how we will spend countless hours creating MMMail personalities, personal TV shows on the web or converting written messages in to the artificially spoken word.
