Tolentini, Venice

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The north side of the church and the campanile.

The Chiesa di San Nicolò da Tolentino, commonly known as the Tolentini, is a church in the sestiere of Santa Croce in Venice, northern Italy. It lies in a Campo of the same name and along the Rio dei Tolentini, near the Giardino Papadopoli.

History

The Theatines arrived in Venice in 1527 after the Sack of Rome. The church dedicated to Saint Nicholas of Tolentino was begun in 1590 by Vincenzo Scamozzi.<ref name=camera>"Church of San Nicola da Tolentino", Camera di Commercio di venezia</ref> The relationship between Scamozzi and his patrons was stormy, and the church was finally completed only in 1714. It is a large church with a huge freestanding Corinthian portico, the only one in Venice, designed by Andrea Tirali.

The Tolentini is a parish church of the Vicariate of San Polo-Santa Croce-Dorsoduro. The church contains the tomb of Doge Giovanni I Corner, Francesco Corner, Giovanni II Corner, and Paolo Renier. The baroque organ was constructed by Pietro Nacchini in 1754.

Annexed to the church was the monastery, now site of the architecture university of Ca’ Foscari.<ref name=camera/> In 1966 Carlo Scarpa worked on creating an entrance for the institute.<ref>Plant, Margaret. Venice: Fragile City, 1797-1997, Yale University Press, 2002, p. 348 Template:ISBN</ref>

Works of art

• San Nicola da Tolentino
  San Nicola da Tolentino
• Ceiling by Mattia Bortoloni
  Ceiling by Mattia Bortoloni

The high altar is by Baldassare Longhena. In 1627, Johann Liss painted a large altarpiece, the Inspiration of Saint Jerome to the left of chancel.<ref>Inspiration of St Jerome</ref><ref>Wittkower, Rudolf and Wittkower, Margot. Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists, New York Review of Books, 2006, p. 56 Template:ISBN</ref> In 1629 Bernardo Strozzi painted St Lawrence Giving Alms for the chancel.<ref>The Charity of St Lawrence</ref>

The funereal monument of the Patriarch of Venice, Giovan Francesco Morosini (d.1678) in the chancel, was completed by the Genovese sculptor Filippo Parodi.<ref>Template:DBI</ref>