Santi Giovanni e Paolo and the Scuola di San Marco
by CARLEVARIS, Luca, Etching
The Scuola di San Marco, decorated with paintings by Gentile Bellini and Carpaccio, the large Dominican church of SS Giovanni e Paolo, and Verrocchio’s statue of the famous condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni, were among the best-known monuments of Venice; the combination of the three in one composition therefore made perfect sense. Carlevaris had included a this view in his series of etchings entitled Le Fabriche, e Vedute di Venetia of 1704.