Santa Maria della Pietà, Venice

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Santa Maria della Pietà
Santa Maria della Visitazione

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Santa Maria della Pietà, Venice (Italy)
Basic information
Geographic coordinates 45°26′03″N12°20′42″E / 45.43417°N 12.34500°E / 45.43417; 12.34500 Coordinates: 45°26′03″N12°20′42″E / 45.43417°N 12.34500°E / 45.43417; 12.34500
Affiliation Catholic Church
Sect Roman Rite
State Italy
Province Venezia
Region Veneto
Website www.pietavenezia.org/it/
Architectural description
Architect(s) Giorgio Massari
Architectural style Baroque architecture
Date established 1745
Completed 1760

The church of Santa Maria della Pietà or della Visitazione is a prominent church in the sestiere of Castello in Venice, Italy. It is sited on the Riva degli Schiavoni, a short walk from the Doge's Palace.

Venice Comune in Veneto, Italy

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History

The present church was built from 1745-1760 adjacent to the site of an earlier church, and adjacent to the orphanage and hospital, the Ospedale della Pietà. The design was by Giorgio Massari, [1] but its façade remained incomplete, with marble facing rising only a third of the way up the columns. In 1906, it was completed but without the originally projected three statues on the roof. Only a single simple cross ornaments the centre. Above the entrance is a large bas-relief representing Charity (1800) by Marsili.

Ospedale della Pietà

The Ospedale della Pietà was a convent, orphanage, and music school in Venice. Like other Venetian ospedali, the Pietà was first established as a hospice for the needy. A group of Venetian nuns, called the Consorelle di Santa Maria dell’Umiltà, established this charitable institution for orphans and abandoned girls in the fourteenth century. By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Pietà - along with the three other charitable Ospedali Grandi - was well known for its all-female musical ensembles that attracted tourists and patrons from around Europe.

Giorgio Massari Italian architect

Giorgio Massari was an Italian late-Baroque architect from Venice.

The interior is oval. The ceilings were frescoed by Tiepolo depicting Strength and Peace and Triumph of Faith, flanked by angelic musicians, while the presbytery was painted by the same artist with the theological Virtues, (1745-1755). Tiepolo was aided by Jacopo Guarana, the pupil of Sebastiano Ricci who had originally made designs for the frescoes.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 18th-century Italian painter

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A chapel by Giovanni Maria Morlaiter with a precious tabernacle decorated with gilded bronze figures and, at the sides, the Archangels Gabriel and Michael. The altar-piece, representing the Visitation, was begun by Giambattista Piazzetta and, on his death, finished by his disciple, Giuseppe Angeli. In the choir above the main entrance door there is a painting depicting Jesus in Simon’s house (1544) by Alessandro Bonvicino, called the Moretto da Brescia. In the side altars there are paintings by Maggiotto, Giuseppe Angeli, and Angelo Marinetti.

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Plaque on the exterior of the church threatening excommunication to all who abandon children for whom they can provide. Lapide chiesa Pieta.JPG
Plaque on the exterior of the church threatening excommunication to all who abandon children for whom they can provide.

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References

  1. "Chiesa della Pietà". Santa Maria della Pietà (in Italian). Venezia: Istituto Provinciale per l'Infanzia. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
  2. Honour, Hugh (1997). Companion Guide to Venice. Companion Guides. pp. 87–88. ISBN   9781900639248.