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Other| June 01 2021 In This Issue Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2021) 80 (2): 135. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2021.80.2.135 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation In This Issue. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2021; 80 (2): 135. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2021.80.2.135 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search The façade of Santa Maria dei Derelitti, also known as the church of the Ospedaletto (Venice, 1674), is one of the most eccentric works by the Venetian architect Baldassare Longhena. Devised as a frontispiece to the church of a hospital, the façade features conspicuous grotesque elements, such as leonine heads and rustic herms. In Negligentia Diligens: Baldassare Longhena and the Ospedaletto Church Façade, Stefano Colombo investigates the seemingly paradoxical architecture of the façade on architectural and rhetorical grounds, suggesting that in its subversion of architectural normativity, the façade offers a metaphor for the symbolic elevation of the poor population under the hospital's care. By examining the concepts of norms and license as these were formulated in seventeenth-century visual rhetoric and architectural theory, Colombo investigates how the Ospedaletto church façade served as an architectural celebration of the humble, with ironic undertones. In Frederick H. Evans's Lantern-Slide Lectures as a... You do not currently have access to this content.