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[[File:Scuola_grande_disanmarco.jpg|thumb|The Scuola Grande di San Marco.]]  
[[File:Scuola_grande_disanmarco.jpg|thumb|The Scuola Grande di San Marco.]]  
'''The Scuola Grande di San Marco''' was a building in [[Venice]], [[Italy]]. It originally was the home to one of the six major sodalities or Scuole Grandi of Venice. It faced the Campo San Giovanni e Paolo, one of the largest squares in the city.
The [[Scuola Grande di San Marco]] (English: '''Great School of Saint Mark''') was a building in [[Venice]].


==History==
==Database Entry==
The edifice was built by the Confraternity of San Marco in 1260 to act as its seat. In 1485, however, it was destroyed by a large fire, and rebuilt in the following twenty years under a new design by Pietro Lombardo, with a fund established by the members. The facade was built in Byzantine style and was decorated with the polished marble.
The Scuola Grande di San Marco was one of the six large charitable organizations founded in Venice to help citizens afford food, dowries, processions, marriages, burials, and anything else they might need.  Notably membership was open to any citizen of Venice, not just the elite.
 
Citizenship status was conferred on third generation Venetians or those who had paid taxes for fifteen years, meaning that Venetians were pretty xenophobic, except when you gave them money.
 
The facade of the building, which was built in 1260, was destroyed in a 1485 fire, causing it to be rebuilt in its current, opulent Byzantine form.<ref name="ac2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*In ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'', it is a [[glyph]] location.
*One of [[Subject 16]]'s [[Glyphs]] is located here.


==Source==
==References==
*''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''
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Revision as of 01:37, 14 August 2011


The Scuola Grande di San Marco.

The Scuola Grande di San Marco (English: Great School of Saint Mark) was a building in Venice.

Database Entry

The Scuola Grande di San Marco was one of the six large charitable organizations founded in Venice to help citizens afford food, dowries, processions, marriages, burials, and anything else they might need. Notably membership was open to any citizen of Venice, not just the elite.

Citizenship status was conferred on third generation Venetians or those who had paid taxes for fifteen years, meaning that Venetians were pretty xenophobic, except when you gave them money.

The facade of the building, which was built in 1260, was destroyed in a 1485 fire, causing it to be rebuilt in its current, opulent Byzantine form.[1]

Trivia

References

  1. ↑ Assassin's Creed II
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