San Giorgio degli Schiavoni is a former scuola and church that’s now a museum; it contains some of the most important paintings in Venice – the Carpaccio cycle which includes St. George and the Dragon and St. Augustine in his Study.

You can use the Chorus Pass churches in this sestiere in San Pietro di Castello and Santa Maria Formosa.

To day we would like to present you a non well kown church : Sant’ Antonin.

This deconsecrated church was closed until this year but after a long work of restauration the city is proud to open it again.

This church has been founded by the Badoer Family in the VIIth Century.  It had the plan of a Basilica until the XVIth Century but the structure has been modified and appears today more simple.

Inside you can see a curiosity : the “Barco” or, as called in Venice, the “Coro delle Matrone”, is a sort of second floor opened onto the internal part of the church where now is the organ but where before were standing the women to assist to the mass.

Many artists decored the church like Alessandro Vittoria, Sebastiano Ricci, Jacopo Palma and Lorenzo Tiepolo.

After 20 years of restauration the church is open to visits every saturday from 10:00 a.m to single tourists but also to groups on reservation until 20 people with a guide. The ticket costs 8,00€ and you can visit also the Diocesan Museum.

Information:

number for Group Reservation: 041 2413817

This Fresco is an opera of Camillo Procaccini: a portrait of angels and on the back a monk who shoot San Carlo Borromeo (a real happening!). This opera is a real rarity for many reasons: the author, the subject (San Carlo Borromeo is painted in the whole cappella, completely painted by Procaccini) and for the paint technique (oil based, very hard to preserve during the centuries).
But not the whole Cappella is restored, there are still 30.000 € missing to finish the job!!!

We remember you that the visit of the Tolentini Chruch is free of charge, if you come in Venice you have to visit it!!!

Cappella Pisani before and after the restoration