Scuola Grande di San Marco

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The Scuola Grande di San Marco is a palace in Venice, Italy. It faces the Campo San Giovanni e Paolo, one of the largest squares in the city.

The edifice was built by the St. Mark Corporation in 1260 to act as its seat. In 1485, however, it was destroyed by a large fire, and rebuilt in the following twenty years under a new design by Pietro Lombardo, with a fund established by the members. The façade, a Renaissance masterwork with delicately decorated niches and pilasters, and with white or polychrome marble statues, was later completed by Mauro Codussi.

In 1819 it became an Austrian military hospital. It is now a civil hospital.