On the campo (square) of Santi Giovanni e Paolo opens the most Roman façade of the Venetian Renaissance: that of the Scuola Grande di San Marco, one of the six Scuole Grandi — the ’Great Schools’, so called because of the sizeable incomes they employed in religious exercises and works of charity — and one of the city’s oldest lay confraternities, born in the 13th century from the flagellant movement and transferred here in 1437, beside the Dominican basilica.