Church of San Nicolò Site Features

The forty Dominicans

Tomaso da Modena's 1352 chapter house cycle in the Seminary, each friar individually characterised at his desk.

The first eyeglasses

Cardinal Hugh of Provence, painted wearing rivet spectacles -- the earliest known image of them anywhere.

The painted columns

Saints frescoed onto the round brick piers of the nave, curving around them.

The Onigo monument

A monumental wall tomb with frescoes attributed to Lorenzo Lotto.