# Santa Maria Derelitti: Façade \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LONGHENA, Baldassare]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary The ponderous, dark, and monstrous façade is indecipherable in its appearance of grotesque deformity and distorted games, tightly closed in, yet evading the observer, as obsessive as a nightmare. The derision of the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/de\_corte/osped1.html'\)" href="/html/d/de\_corte/osped1.html">monstrous masks</a> on the dadoes of the pilasters of the first order, the absurd strength of the four <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/de\_corte/osped2.html'\)" href="/html/d/de\_corte/osped2.html">gigantic telamons,</a> the ironically exaggerated cornices, the invisible cartouche on the attic, and the four poised statues are more hinted at than truly seen. ## Related artworks - [Ca' Pesaro: Façade on the Canal Grande]() - [Ca' Pesaro: Façade on the Canal Grande]() - [Ca' Pesaro: Façade on the Rio delle Due Torri]() - [Ca' Pesaro: View from the Canal Grande]() - [Ca' Rezzonico: Façade]() - [Ca' Rezzonico: Façade]() - [Ca' Rezzonico: Façade]() - [Collegio Greco Flangini]() - [High Altar]() - [High Altar]() - [High Altar]() - [High Altar]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()