Treviso | Saint Agustine church

The St. Augustine's Church is the only copy in Treviso of Baroque sacred building elliptical; it was built around the middle of '700 on a design Francesco Vecellio and completed in 1758. The new church was built on the existing rectangular plan. Like other churches in Treviso also that of St. Augustine was the seat of a school: that of shoemakers. Inside the church the walls and ceiling are decorated with stucco and inlaid marble. Inside there are two frescoes depicting one the "Flagellation" the other San Sebastian, dating back to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. On the left you can admire the "Madonna of the belt" along with two statues of St. Augustine and his mother, Santa Monica, now placed on the sides of the main altar. The altarpiece depicting St. Ludovico Pozzoserrato Anianus, patron of the School of "Calegheri" - shoemakers -, is located on the right altar.