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Ospedaletto Tour

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View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  1) Facade - Santa Maria dei Derelitti [108]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  2) Facade - Baldassare Longhena - Juste le Court [106]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  3) Facade - Bartolomeo Carnioni Portrait Bust [139]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  4) Facade [14]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  5) Facade - grotesque heads [57]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  6) Facade - Baldassare Longhena - Juste le Court [62]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  7) Interior View - Bartolomeo Carnioni's bequest [90]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  8) Altar Detail - Architect Domenico Rossi - acoustical expert Giovan Francesco Costa [93]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  9) Altar Detail - Tommaso Ruer sculptor [57]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  10) 'Birth of the Virgin Mary' Painting by Antonio Molinari [29]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  11) 'Coronation of the Virgin Mary' painting by Damiano Mazza [60]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  12) 'Visitation' by Antonio Molinari [42]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  13) Right Aisle [100]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  14) Right Aisle - 'Virgin and Child with Saints Joseph, Veronica, Antonio Abate and Carlo Borromeo' [30]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  15) Right Aisle - 'Virgin and Child Surrounded by Saints' by Francesco Ruschi' [110]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  16) Interior Facade [19]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  17) Interior Facade - Pietro Liberi Paintings [47]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  18) View Toward Rear - Ceiling Fresco by Giuseppe Cherubini [34]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  19) Ceiling - 'Virgin Appears to Girolamo Miani' [131]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  20) Ceiling by Giuseppe Cherubini [65]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  21) Ceiling - fool-the-eye technique [64]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  22) Left Aisle - 'Our Lady of Mount Carmel with St. John the Baptist and St. Francis of Assisi' by Ermanno Stroiffi [86]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  23) Left Aisle - 'St. Girolamo Miani and the Little Orphans at the Foot of the Cross' [162]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  24) Path to the Music Room [174]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  25) Sala della Musica - painter Jacopo Guarana and the trompe l'oeil specialist Geralomo Mengozzi Colonna [94]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  26) Sala della Musica - Apollo [228]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  27) Sala della Musica - Agostino Mengozzi-Colonna's quaduratura painting [84]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  28) Sala della Musica - 'The Triumph of Music' [84]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  29) Ospedaletto Final View - Santa Maria dei Derelitti [56]

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Facade - Baldassare Longhena - Juste le Court -- Ospedaletto, Venice, Italy
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Ospedaletto - Venice, Italy
Facade - Baldassare Longhena - Juste le Court



The facade of the church soars straight up on a narrow street. The figural decorations are life size, and if they look just vaguely familiar, that's because they are by the same sculptor, Juste le Court, who made the huge Pesaro monument in the Frari church where the figures also seem to be holding half the world above them. This is one of le Court's collaborations with the architect Baldassare Longhena. This facade was begun in 1662, and the work took a dozen years to complete. It's one of the strangest, most extravagant church exteriors in Venice.











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