Scuola Canton in Venice
Object Detail
Building Date
1531-1532, 1672, 1736 (ark), 1780 (bimah)
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
1859 (staircase), 1968-1989
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Stone
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
Synagogue
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)
Bibliography
http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2017/05/14/italy-watch-restoration-of-windows-in-venice-synagogues;
https://www.wmf.org/project/schola-canton
Gruber, Samuel D., “Italian Synagogues from 1492 to the Present,” in Jewish Religious Architecture: From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism, ed. Steven Fine (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020), 275–86, p. 277.
Pinkerfeld, Yaakov, Batei-ha-kneset be-italiya mitkufat ha-renesans 'ad yameinu: perek be-toldot ha-adrikhalut ha-yehudit (Jerusalem, 1954), pp. 9-10 with plan, ills. 7-8.
Sacerdoti, Annie, Guide to Jewish Italy (Brooklyn: Israelowitz Publishing, 1989)
Sacerdoti, Annie. The Guide to Jewish Italy, photographs by Alberto Jona Falco (Venice, 2008)
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Vladimir Levin
Photographer
Photograph Date
2011
Remarks
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