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Hospital De La Caridad (other)
Hospital de la Caridad may refer to: * Hospital de la Caridad (Algeciras), a former charity hospital in Algeciras, Spain * Hospital de la Caridad (Seville), a baroque charity hospital building in Seville, Spain See also * Charity Hospital (other), the literal translation of Hospital de la Caridad into English {{hospitaldis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hospital De La Caridad (Algeciras)
The Hospital de la Caridad or ''Charity Hospital'' in Algeciras, Spain was built as a hospital A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ... to serve the population but today the building is preserved as part of the town's cultural heritage. It has been an arts centre but is intended to become a municipal museum. History The hospital was built with the patronage of Father Tomás del Valle who in 1748 was the Bishop of Cádiz and Ceuta. The hospital was required because the existing military hospital could not handle the long staying cases. The cost was met by the diocese and by popular contributions. Within four years some rooms were complete and the adjoining chapel, Chapel of La Caridad was ready by 1754 but the hospital itself was not finished until 1768. The hospital ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hospital De La Caridad (Seville)
The Hospital de la Caridad in Seville, Spain is a baroque charity hospital building near Plaza de toros de la Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla. The charity hospital was founded in 1674, and still cares for the aged and infirm. The hospital's chapel is open to the public and "contains some of Seville's most sumptuous baroque sculpture." Bartolomé Esteban Murillo in 1668 painted eight paintings commissioned for Seville's Hermandad de la Caridad, to which the artist himself belonged and one of whose commandments was to clothe the naked. Four of those eight works remain in Seville ( ''The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes'', '' Moses at the Rock of Horeb'', ''Saint Elizabeth of Hungary'' eturned to Spain 1815and '' Saint John of God Carrying a Sick Man''), whereas the Washington work and the other three were looted by Napoleonic commander and Marechal Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult in 1810 ('' The Healing of the Paralytic'', National Gallery, London; '' Abraham Receiving the Three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |