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Santa Maria della Scala (also referred to as the Hospital, Ospedale, and Spedale) is located in Siena, Italy.Now a museum, it was once an important civic hospital dedicated to caring for abandoned children, the poor, the sick, and pilgrims.
Both Casini and Bartoli were close to Bernardino da Siena, and back then Bartoli was the rector of the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala from 1410 to 1427. Bernardino promotes Bartoli's position to a Bishop as a means to draw closer the relationship between the city's church and the hospital Santa Maria della Scala (Siena). [2]
An enormous bronze ciborium, created by Vecchietta for the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala (c. 1467-72), was moved to the Cathedral of Siena in 1506. According to Vasari, "This casting, which is admirable, acquired very great fame and repute for him by reason of the proportion and grace that it shows in all its parts; and whosoever observes this work well can see that the design is good ...
The enormous bronze ciborium is the work of Vecchietta (1467–1472, originally commissioned for the church of the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, across the square, and brought to the cathedral in 1506).
The oratory was sponsored by the 14th-century lay confraternity of Santa Caterina della Note, originally Confraternity of San Michele Arcangelo, [1] which was dedicated to the care of the sick and dying. The site of the oratory traditionally was where St Catherine of Siena herself would sleep while at work in the hospital. The actual spot is ...
The church Santa Maria della Scala is located on the square of the same name. It was built under the patronage of Pope Clement VIII between 1593 and 1610 to house a miraculous icon of the Madonna. Tradition holds that a midwife with a dying child in her arms prayed under the stairs of a house where the image of the Madonna was present, and the ...
Comune di Siena (Hrsg.): I Bottini. Acquedotti medievali senesi. Edizioni Gielle, Siena 1984; Comune di Siena, Santa Maria della Scala, Associazione La Diana (Hrsg.): A ritrovar la Diana. Protagon Editori, Siena 2001, ISBN 88-8024-074-9; Duccio Balestracci, Laura Vigni, Armando Constantini: La memoria dell'Acqua. I bottini di Siena.
Biccherna Cover. The Tribute Offering, from ca. 1364. Lippo Vanni was a 14th-century Italian painter and miniaturist who was active in his native Siena.. He painted miniatures for the Santa Maria della Scala in Siena in 1344, and his name first appears in the Guild in 1355.