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The four great Venetian Ospedali (Ospedali Grandi, also referred to as the Ospedali Maggiori) - the Ospedale della Pietà, the Ospedale degl'Incurabili, the Ospedale di Santa Maria dei Derelitti, and the Ospedale di San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti - were charitable hospices, which provided a wide range of services for the needy of Venice.
The Ospedale della Pietà was a convent, orphanage, and music school in Venice. Like other Venetian ospedali , the Pietà was first established as a hospice for the needy. A group of Venetian nuns, called the Consorelle di Santa Maria dell’Umiltà, established this charitable institution for orphans and abandoned girls in the fourteenth century.
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Agata was held at high esteem within the Ospedale della Pietà until the end of her life. She helped maintain the institution's musical collections, she taught several younger women to high levels of music, and she was eventually raised to the position of Prioress ( Priora ), or head of the women's section of the institution, in her fifties.
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Her exact date of birth is unknown because Anna Maria was an orphan at the Ospedale della Pietà (Pietà Hospital) in Venice. The orphanage was established to raise girls who would be useful to society. Babies would be dropped off through a secret opening barely large enough for them, first created in 1696.
English: The Pieta is now in the first temple on the right of Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City. Français : ce groupe était destiné au tombeau du Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, abbé de Saint-Denis.
Author: National Gallery of Art: Image title: Giovanni della Robbia (Florentine, 1469 - 1529/1530), Pietà, c. 1510/1520, glazed terracotta, Samuel H. Kress Collection 1943.4.70