Scuola Grande dei Carmini
The Scuola Grande dei Carmini is a confraternity building whose story runs alongside Venice’s religious life and its changing politics. The Scuola of the same name was founded in 1594 under Doge Pasquale Cicogna, and it became the last Scuola Grande to be officially recognized, in 1767, by the Council of Ten. When Napoleon’s anticlerical decrees suppressed the confraternity in 1807, the Austrians later allowed it to reopen—so the institution continues today, though mostly through cultural activities. The architecture you see here reflects that long continuity. The present scuola building was built starting in 1627 and was designed by Francesco Caustello and Baldassarre Longhena. Its Baroque entrance and porch face south toward Campo Santa Margherita, with the whiteness of the Istrian stone set against black wrought-iron balustrades. …
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