Treviso | St. Nicholas' church

St. Nicholas' church was built in the early '300 by Dominicans also thanks to conspicuous legacies of the friar NiccolÚ Boccalino, better known as Pope Benedict XI. With its simple shapes, but stretched upwards, with the massive perimeter walls just broken by thin slits from where a light enters tempered by the ancient stained glass, St. Nicholas' church marks a moment of transition between the robust Romanesque and the elegant Gothic style of transalpine origin. The columns, painted by Tomaso da Modena (second left column) and other artists of his school, divide the interior space into three naves, supporting a wooden roof with a circular section. The presbytery has his tomb of Augustine Onigo whose sculptural part is by Antonio Rizzo and the pictorial one by Lotto. On the perimeter wall of the right aisle there is an organ of Callido flanked by a large fresco of St. Christopher high almost to the rafters. In the adjoining Chapter House there is a large fresco that takes the entire perimeter of the large room representing the Dominicans distinguished each framed within a niche - small study. The work is by Tomaso da Modena and is a time of stylistic revision as well as the iconographic way of representing the grotesque. However, the Church suffered during World War II, heavy bombing on April 7 of 1944 which caused the breaking of the roof and a partial demolition of the bell tower.