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The Scuola Grande di San Rocco

Core Reading (see also the bibliography for charitable institutions and lay piety )

Chambers, David, and Brian Pullan (eds), Venice: A Documentary History 1450-1630 (Oxford, 1992; rept. Toronto, 2001), pp. 213-17.

Glixon, Jonathan, Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1807Link opens in a new window (Oxford, 2003)

Köster, Gabriele, 'Venerable Tradition or Reprehensible Luxury? A Scandal about Processional Display in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco', Confratenitas 21/2 (2010), 31-42

Marshall, Louise, 'A Plague Saint for Venice: Tintoretto at the Chiesa Di San RoccoLink opens in a new window', Artibus et Historiae 33/66 (2012), 153–87

Nichols, Tom, Tintoretto: Tradition and IdentityLink opens in a new window, 2nd ed. (London, 2015)

Valcanover, Francesco, Jacopo Tintoretto and the Scuola Grande of San Rocco (Venice, 1983)

E-resources

The Scuola Grande di San RoccoLink opens in a new window 

Gabrieli, Giovanni, Music for San RoccoLink opens in a new window

Tintoretto, San Rocco in the HospitalLink opens in a new window, 1549, Church of San Rocco

Tintoretto, Interior of the Sala Grande (ceilingLink opens in a new window and wall paintingsLink opens in a new window ), 1560.

For other images of the Scuola di San Rocco, search the Web Gallery of ArtLink opens in a new window .