The Chiesa di San Nicolò da Tolentino, commonly known as the Tolentini, is a church in Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

, northern Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

, the home of the Theatines

Theatines

The Theatines or the Congregation of Clerks Regular of the Divine Providence are a male religious order of the Catholic Church, with the post-nominal initials "C.R."-Foundation:...

 order in the city. The Theatines arrived in Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

 in 1527 after the Sack of Rome

Sack of Rome (1527)

The Sack of Rome on 6 May 1527 was a military event carried out by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in Rome, then part of the Papal States...

. The church dedicated to Saint Nicholas of Tolentino

Nicholas of Tolentino

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino , known as the Patron of Holy Souls, was an Italian saint and mystic.-Biography:...

  was begun in 1590 by Vincenzo Scamozzi

Vincenzo Scamozzi

thumb|250px|Portrait of Vincenzo Scamozzi by [[Paolo Veronese]]Vincenzo Scamozzi was a Venetian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venice area in the second half of the 16th century...

 and finally completed in 1714. It is a large church with a huge freestanding Corinthian

Corinthian order

The Corinthian order is one of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric and Ionic. When classical architecture was revived during the Renaissance, two more orders were added to the canon, the Tuscan order and the Composite order...

 portico

Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls...

, the only one in Venice, designed by Andrea Tirali

Andrea Tirali

Andrea Tirali was an Italian architect working in Venice and the Veneto. He is known to have worked at Villa Duodo and the Chiesa and Convento di San Nicolò at Tolentino, at Villa Duodo he added to the work of Vincenzo Scamozzi...

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The Tolentini is a parish church of the Vicariate of San Polo-Santa Croce-Dorsoduro.

Works of art

• Johann Liss
  Johann Liss
  Johann Liss was a leading German Baroque painter of the 17th century, active mainly in Venice.-Biography:...
  
   ( Inspiration of St Jerome to the left of chancel (image may be copy).
• Filippo Parodi
  Filippo Parodi
  Filippo Parodi was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period, "Genoa's first and greatest native Baroque sculptor".-Biography:...
  
   (tomb of Patriarch
  Patriarch of Venice
  The Patriarch of Venice is the ordinary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice. The bishop is one of the few Patriarchs in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church...
  
   Francesco Morosini
  Francesco Morosini
  Francesco Morosini was the Doge of Venice from 1688 to 1694, at the height of the Great Turkish War...
  
   (d.1678) in the chancel)
• Bernardo Strozzi
  Bernardo Strozzi
  Bernardo Strozzi was a prominent and prolific Italian Baroque painter born and active mainly in Genoa, and also active in Venice.-Biography:Strozzi was born in Genoa. He was probably not related to the other Strozzi family....
  
  (St Lawrence Giving Almshttp://www.wga.hu/html/s/strozzi/2/lawrence.html in the chancel)

External links

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