Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pieta
Santa Maria della Pietà is one of Castello’s most important Baroque churches, built on the Riva degli Schiavoni not far from the Doge’s Palace. The church you see today was constructed from 1745 to 1760, beside an earlier church that served the Ospedale della Pietà—an orphanage and hospital run by the Venetian State. Music, art, and charity converge here: Antonio Vivaldi worked as Concert Master from 1703 to 1740 at the Ospedale. The design was by Giorgio Massari, and even his façade shows a story of incomplete ambition—marble facing rose only a third of the way up the columns before later completion in 1906, without the originally planned three roof statues. …
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