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Ospedaletto and Church of Santa Maria dei Derelitti

Longhena’s Baroque facade (1670) on the Barbaria delle Tole, with the giants of Giusto Le Court’s school
Longhena’s Baroque facade (1670) on the Barbaria delle Tole, with the giants of Giusto Le Court’s school Photo: dconvertini, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Along the Barbaria delle Tole — the calle (street) where timber, the ’tole’ (planks), once came ashore for a trade fragrant with resin and sparse voices — the facade of the Ospedaletto looms like a Baroque mask: giants and grotesque stone masks twist around the portal, signed by the overflowing imagination of Baldassare Longhena, with the giants by Giusto Le Court.

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