Religious Places

Padua and the Scoletta: the Scuola del Santo

Popularly called Scoletta, the Scuola del Santo was built as the seat of the Confraternity of St. Anthony; the lower part was built around 1430, the upper part in 1504. In the sixteenth-century part, the Prioral Hall contains a cycle of 18 paintings executed in the early sixteenth century with scenes from the life and miracles of St. Anthony. Three of these frescoes are early works by Tiziano Vecellio (1511): St. Anthony makes an infant talk, The jealous husband stabbing his wife, St. Anthony reattaches the foot to a young man. The paintings and the Prioral Hall, after the important restoration completed in 2006, have regained their original splendour.

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