Scuola del Santo
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The Scuola del Santo or Scoletta was the headquarters of the Archconfraternity of St Anthony of Padua. It overhangs the churchyard of Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua, next door to the St. George's Oratory.
The Confraternity built the Scoletta in 1427 and it was expanded in 1504 with an upper floor consisting of the Sala Priorale (prior's room) decorated with a cycle of fifteen frescoes and three canvases, which were worked on by the young Titian between 1510 and 1511. He was entrusted with three frescos of miracles performed by Anthony of Padua, The Miracle of the Newborn, The Miracle of the Healed Foot and The Miracle of the Jealous Husband. The three large frescoes were painted by him between April and December 1511 in the main room of the Scuola del Santo – they were his first large-scale independent work. The raised arm of the wife in Husband is sculpted in relief rather than painted illusionistically.
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