A view of the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, looking on the Scuola di San Marco and the Chiesa Santa Maria dei Frari

The focus of the view is on the Scuola di San Marco, one of the six major present scuole men's religious confraternities, begun in 1485 by Pietro Lombardo and Giovanni Buora and completed by Mauro Codussi ten years later. Placed in the square is Andrea del Verrocchio's famous equestrian statue of the condottiere Bartolommeo Colleoni, finished in 1496 and until 1866 the only outdoor public monument in the city.
The church of Santa Maria dei Frari was notably the largest Gothic church in Venice.