Still the seat of the lay brotherhood founded in 1261, the Scuola Grande building embraces various architectural styles, from the Gothic to the Renaissance and Baroque. The ground floor contains an epigraphic collection of great historic interest, while the first floor features numerous paintings by Venetian artists commissioned by the Scuola itself over the centuries, such as Palma Giovane, Tintoretto, Tiepolo and Longhi.

The Scuola has conserved a precious Reliquary since 1369, a masterpiece of Venetian Gothic jewellery, containing two fragments of the True Cross, which gave rise to one of the most important cycles of Venetian painting – the Miracles of the Cross – and the subsequent architectural extensions.

The Church, founded in 960 as the Badoer family’s private chapel, conserves a precious organ made in 1760 by Giovanni Battista Piaggia. The adjacent cemetery is a rare example of a burial place, painted at the end of the fifteenth century by Lazzaro Bastiani.

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