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Accademia di Belle Arti - Ex Ospedale degli Incurabili

Where Fondamenta Zattere Allo Spirito Santo, 420-423, Venezia

The former Hospital for Incurable Diseases is a massive sixteenth-century building in Venice, located at the Foundation of the rafts to the Holy Spirit, in the Dorsoduro district. Today is headquarters of the Academy of Fine Arts. More of a horizontal, with bare facade, covered in Istrian stone at the bottom, this architectural complex of two floors was built in the second half of the sixteenth century to a design by Jacopo Sansovino. On the facade facing the Giudecca Canal, open symmetrically a number of small windows and oculi, a large central entrance and two smaller with a round arch. The interior spaces are distributed on all four sides of the rectangle, in the form of rooms and long corridors adjacent to each floor. Added to these is a large cloister with columns, inside which are placed four wells. Locals, stand still some large rooms with wooden ceilings and stucco, and a small church. The Hospital said it was "the Incurable" because welcomed the incurably ill with syphilis. In 1807, the Hospital was closed. In the late nineties, the building was chosen as the new home of the Academy of Fine Arts.

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