Italy audio travel guide. The Scuola is a unique museum that is so impressive that its works of art, set off by gold gild trim, inspire one to just sit
Enhance your holiday travel experience by downloading this audio tour of Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, Italy.
Great Discoveries Audio Tour of Scuola Grande di San Rocco offers today's tourist the most enjoyable and informative way to visit this striking 16th century Renaissance building. The Scuola is a unique museum that is so incredibly impressive that its works of art, set off by gold gild trim, inspire one to just sit and contemplate. It is a rather small building but an absolute must for art lovers. A visit would be worthy of almost any walk and it moves above many other Venetian sites in terms of priority. Definitely make the time to stop in here.
La Scuola Grande di San Rocco was founded in 1478 as part of a network of religious brotherhoods and confraternities (guilds) set up in Venice to perform charitable acts. The word scuola is derived from Latin and it means corporation or guild. By joining together many of the lower orders of society (merchants, artisans, state workers, doctors), the scuola, greatly influenced the affairs of the state. The patricians may have ruled the republic but the wealth of the members of the scuola gave the middle and lower classes a strong voice in the society as a whole. Generally, the first floor of the scuola was designated for religious or charitable functions while the second floors were generally used as meeting places. These second floor meeting rooms were sometimes ostentatious but more often exquisitely beautiful. The meeting halls and the exteriors of the buildings became symbols of the prosperity, influence, and civic status of the guilds.
The most renowned of these is his stunning 'Crucifixion , which is hanging in the Albergo Room. The paintings on the ceilings are so alluring that the museum provides mirrors to use for standing and looking at each piece cramp. There are also some interesting easel works by Titian, Tiepolo, and Giorgione and on the staircase are canvasses by Pietro Negri and Antonio Zanchi.
Our tour guides visitors through this wondrously unique building which contains a stunning collection of paintings by Tintoretto and other great Venetian artists. The most important pieces have been carefully selected for discussion. As you view these wonderful treasures, our professional narrator, accompanied by historically appropriate background music, will delight, amuse and inform you, making your visit a most memorable experience.
Guides are recorded in easy to follow segments that are readily located on your iPod. This 1 hour and 27 minute, 14 track, audio tour is designed to work with an easy to read building diagram, with clearly numbered locations, which coordinate with the track numbers and descriptions displayed on your iPod.
Author /Spoken By Jennifer Dennis / Christopher Kent
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Enhance your holiday travel experience by downloading this audio tour of Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, Italy.
Great Discoveries Audio Tour of Scuola Grande di San Rocco offers today's tourist the most enjoyable and informative way to visit this striking 16th century Renaissance building. The Scuola is a unique museum that is so incredibly impressive that its works of art, set off by gold gild trim, inspire one to just sit and contemplate. It is a rather small building but an absolute must for art lovers. A visit would be worthy of almost any walk and it moves above many other Venetian sites in terms of priority. Definitely make the time to stop in here.
La Scuola Grande di San Rocco was founded in 1478 as part of a network of religious brotherhoods and confraternities (guilds) set up in Venice to perform charitable acts. The word scuola is derived from Latin and it means corporation or guild. By joining together many of the lower orders of society (merchants, artisans, state workers, doctors), the scuola, greatly influenced the affairs of the state. The patricians may have ruled the republic but the wealth of the members of the scuola gave the middle and lower classes a strong voice in the society as a whole. Generally, the first floor of the scuola was designated for religious or charitable functions while the second floors were generally used as meeting places. These second floor meeting rooms were sometimes ostentatious but more often exquisitely beautiful. The meeting halls and the exteriors of the buildings became symbols of the prosperity, influence, and civic status of the guilds.
The most renowned of these is his stunning 'Crucifixion , which is hanging in the Albergo Room. The paintings on the ceilings are so alluring that the museum provides mirrors to use for standing and looking at each piece cramp. There are also some interesting easel works by Titian, Tiepolo, and Giorgione and on the staircase are canvasses by Pietro Negri and Antonio Zanchi.
Our tour guides visitors through this wondrously unique building which contains a stunning collection of paintings by Tintoretto and other great Venetian artists. The most important pieces have been carefully selected for discussion. As you view these wonderful treasures, our professional narrator, accompanied by historically appropriate background music, will delight, amuse and inform you, making your visit a most memorable experience.
Guides are recorded in easy to follow segments that are readily located on your iPod. This 1 hour and 27 minute, 14 track, audio tour is designed to work with an easy to read building diagram, with clearly numbered locations, which coordinate with the track numbers and descriptions displayed on your iPod.
Author /Spoken By Jennifer Dennis / Christopher Kent
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