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VIEW OF THE VESTIBULE IN THE HOSPITAL OF SAINT JOHN OF GOD - IN FLORENCE,San Giovanni di Dio ,Italy,1874 Print,Antique Engraving,Italian Architecture Print VIEW OF THE VESTIBULE IN THE HOSPITAL OF SAINT JOHN OF GOD - IN FLORENCE,San Giovanni di Dio ,Italy,1874 Print,Toscany Architecture Print Historical Collectible Italian Architecture Art PrintThis hospital, on the street of Borgo Ognissanti dates back to the 14th century. In 1382, its founder Simone Vespucci dedicated the hospital. Its name, Santa Maria dell'Umilt? (of Humility), probably comes from the nearby convent of the same name. Vespucci, a merchant and silkmaker was also the first administrator and patron of the hospital, along with being the great uncle of the more famous Amerigo. In 1400, the hospital passed from the Vespucci to the captains of Bigallo; the latter had been given charge of the supervision and management of small hospitals in the city and surrounding countryside. The Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God's involvement in this hospital's activity began on February 4th 1588 when Grand Duke Ferdinand I accorded possession of the hospital buildings and grounds to the brothers of Saint John of God. This event coincided with a serious and widespread climate of pauperism which was the result of repeated famines and epidemics which had particularly struck the inhabitants of the surrounding countryside. The famine provoked a literal invasion of the city led mostly by peasants, who were forced there by the need to find food and work. What further complicated the work of the new occupants of the hospital was that it was left to them bare of materials and in a sorry state. Even at this early date, the city of Florence's health-care system was already quite advanced and specialised. The hospitals were therefore not prepared to deal with this problem which had little to do with health-care and everything to do with charity on a large scale. The simple activity of accepting the infirm which distinguishes Florence in the entire XVII century is owed to the daily commitment which was practised principally in temporary treatments, medications, tooth extractions, bleedings etc. of the area's residents and especially practised on the poor and vagrant beggars who found themselves in this same street and in the area surrounding Santa Maria Novella. It was in the XVIII Century that the hospital assumed a civil nature, regarding both the building and the services rendered. The role of the hospital, managed by the faithful already known as "Fatebenefratelli" (by the invitation to passers-by to donate funds) and also known as "brothers of the basket" due to the big basket used by them in their daily "searches" according to the teachings of the founder. In the 1700's in fact, the brothers obtained a yearly subsidy of approximately 800 scudos from the Medicean government to help cure the sick and improve the conditions of the local people. Among these works, we find Carlo Marcellini, the author of the Church's facade and a new organisation of the hospital complex. To this day the facade is still buried under the later facade of Pier Antonio Tosi of the late 1700's and under that of Ignazio Villa in the second half of the 19th Century. At the end of the century and still more in the next, the recognition of the works of the Brothers of Saint John of God was witnessed by the legacy which, finally, came to constitute a considerable patrimony equal to the other grand Florentine institutions and principally consisting of the two farms of Ruballa and Santa Gonda, in large part coming from the bequest of Laura Salviati d'AtriThis exquisite Architecture Print shows a remarkable drawing of Tuscan Renaissance Architecture. This is a rare 1874 reprint from the publication of 1815. This print is over 130 years old.PUBLISHER- DUCHER & CieEDITORS - GRANDJEAN DE MONTIGNY, A. AND A. FAMIN, - Both artists studied a Beaux-Arts curriculum under Charles Percier and Pierre Leonard Fontaine. Grandje. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 52137
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