San Nicolò da Tolentino
The church of San Nicolò da Tolentino, often known simply as I Tolentini, was begun by Vincenzo Scamozzi, in 1590, for the Theatine order. A decade later Scamozzi was dismissed before the church had been completed. Between 1706 and 1714 Andrea Tirali added a classical portico to the façade. However, the plan to clad the rest of the façade with stone was never carried out.
The interior comprises a nave flanked by chapels, two short transepts and a long chancel. On the left wall of the chancel is the funeral monument to Giovanni Francesco Morosini, the patriarch not the doge, who died in 1678. It is one of the grandest Baroque monuments in Venice and is the work of the Genoese sculptor, Filippo Parodi.
The interior comprises a nave flanked by chapels, two short transepts and a long chancel. On the left wall of the chancel is the funeral monument to Giovanni Francesco Morosini, the patriarch not the doge, who died in 1678. It is one of the grandest Baroque monuments in Venice and is the work of the Genoese sculptor, Filippo Parodi.
