Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of St Andrews
Book title
Dagli Incurabili alla Pietà : Le chiese degli Ospedali Grandi di Venezia tra architettura e musica (1522-1790)
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Leo S. Olschki Editore
ISBN of book
978-88-222-5766-6
Year of publication
2008
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
The Ospedali Grandi of Venice are justly celebrated for their excellence in musical performance, which reached new heights during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The orphan girls housed in these institutions performed in the churches attached to the four hospitals. What impact did this musical activity have on the buildings? The volume traces the architectural history of the four buildings in order to identify the changes imposed by the demands of musical performance at particularly significant moments in their evolution.
