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Venetian painters and Dalmatian Patrons: Minor Masters in the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni between Collective and Individual

The decoration of the sala superiore of the Scuola dei SS. Giorgio e Trifone, 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. The decorative programme of the sala superiore, 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.

Scuola dei SS. Giorgio e Trifone, Venice, collective patronage

Proceedings of the conference Visualizing Past in a Foreign Country: Schiavoni/Illyrian Confraternities and Colleges in Early Modern Italy in comparative perspective (Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 30-31 May 2017), eds. Giuseppe Capriotti, Francesca Coltrinari, Jasenka Gudelj.