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The almshouse block known as the Ca' di Dio was rebuilt by Sansovino to house twenty-four poor women for the Procuratia de Supra from 1545. This large complex, founded as early as the 13th century, originally housed pilgrims. The commission for rebuilding required the strictest possible economy. The reconstructed building achieves its dramatic impact not from learned classicism but from pure form - from the audacious line of outsized chimneys along the rio wing, and from the subtlety of the oblique angle that brings the end of the range into view.
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