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Former Theatine Convent (IUAV)

The porticoed cloister of the Tolentini with the vera da pozzo: the heart of Scamozzi’s convent, now the seat of the Iuav
The porticoed cloister of the Tolentini with the vera da pozzo: the heart of Scamozzi’s convent, now the seat of the Iuav Photo: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Behind the bulk of the Tolentini basilica opens a convent that is a small masterpiece of 16th-century conventual architecture: Vincenzo Scamozzi designed it for the Theatine fathers, and the Theatines themselves completed it in 1602. Porticoed cloister, cells, corner refectory: everything according to the golden rule of the perfect convent — and even a rare ’aerial walkway’ on the second floor.

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