# Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista: Doorway [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LOMBARDO, Pietro]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary The building of the confraternity was built on the site of an earlier edifice. The confraternity commissioned Pietro Lombardo to build its new headquarters. The work lasted from 1474 to 1481. The doorway leads into an open courtyard, the first example of Renaissance urban design in Venice. The portal is surmounted by a lunette with an eagle grasping the Gospel in its talons: it symbolizes John the Evangelist, the confraternity's patron saint. The classical structure is completed with two windows with triangular pediments and decorated pilasters. ## Related artworks - [Altar of San Giobbe]() - [Altar of the Badoer-Giustinian Chapel]() - [Doge Leonardo Loredano before the Virgin and Child]() - [Interior view of the dome \(detail\)]() - [Interior view of the dome]() - [Interior view]() - [Left wall of the Badoer-Giustinian Chapel]() - [Main door of the church \(detail\)]() - [Main door of the church]() - [Monument of Pietro Mocenigo \(detail\)]() - [Monument of Pietro Mocenigo \(detail\)]() - [Monument of Pietro Mocenigo \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()