San Nicolò da Tolentino
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The church of San Nicolò da Tolentino, often known simply as I Tolentini, was begun by Vincenzo Scamozzi in 1590 for the Theatine order (which had taken refuge in Venice after the sack of Rome in 1527). A decade later Scamozzi was dismissed before the church had been completed. Between 1706 and 1714 Andrea Tirali added a classical portico, the first in Venice, 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 deceased, half rising on his sarcophagus, clasp his hands in prayer. Below him writhes Time, in chains, flanked by personifications of Fame and Charity. |
San Nicolo da Tolentino
Funeral monument of Francesco Morosini
by Filippo Parodi, c. 1680.
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