San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti
San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti | |
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Baroque | |
Groundbreaking | 1601 |
Completed | 1673 |
San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti is an ancient church in the
History
By 1224, a hospital for
In 1500, funds left over after the construction of the Basilica of
The father of Antonio Vivaldi taught violin at the music school here from 1689 to 1693. Like the Ospedale della Pietà, it took in abandoned girls who studied music and were trained to sing and play. The church still has a metal grille behind which the orphan girls (figlie del coro in Italian) sang.
For this church, the composer Simon Mayr wrote the oratorios Sisara (based on story of Sisera 1793), Tobiae matrimonium (1794) and David in spelunca Engaddi (1795).
Description
Completed by 1631, the nave has no flanking aisles, but does have choir galleries. Scamozzi also designed the cloister of the adjacent hospital. The canal-facing facade, designed by Antonio Sardi, was not completed until 1673 by his son Giuseppe. The south side of the bell-tower has a sundial.
In the interior, the right wall, is a Crucifixion and Virgin and St John by
Sources
- Derived from Italian Wikipedia entry.
- Churches of Venice Website
- Venice Tourism site
References
- ^ Amici per Pro Venzia; Swiss Foundation. "Monumento Mocenigo - Fondazione Pro Venezia". www.provenezia.ch (in Italian). Retrieved 12 June 2021.