Treviso Cathedral ( it, Duomo di Treviso, Cattedrale di San Pietro Apostolo) is a

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Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

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, northern

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, dedicated to

Saint Peter Saint Peter; he, שמעון בר יונה, Šimʿōn bar Yōnāh; ar, سِمعَان بُطرُس, translit=Simʿa̅n Buṭrus; grc-gre, Πέτρος, Petros; cop, Ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ, Petros; lat, Petrus; ar, شمعون الصفـا, Sham'un ...

. It is the seat of the

bishop of Treviso The Diocese of Treviso ( la, Dioecesis Tarvisina) is Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Veneto, Italy. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Patriarchate of Venice ...

History

The church originates from the 6th century and stands in an area where during the

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period there were a temple, a theatre and possibly some baths. In the 11th-12th centuries the church was remodelled in Romanesque style. In 1768 it was demolished and rebuilt in

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, only the

crypt A crypt (from Latin ''crypta'' "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics. Originally, crypts were typically found below the main apse of a chur ...

remaining from the previous edifice. The current façade dates from 1836. Treviso Cathedral was involved in the

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bombing of 7 April 1944, having part of its library damaged by fire.

Description

Sights in the interior include the Malchiostro Chapel, designed by Tullio and

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, which was frescoed by

Il Pordenone Pordenone, Il Pordenone in Italian, is the byname of Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis (c. 1484 – 14 January 1539), an Italian Mannerist painter, loosely of the Venetian school. Vasari, his main biographer, wrongly identifies him as Giovann ...

and which houses the '' Malchiostro Annunciation'' by

Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italians, Italian (Republic of Venice, Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school (art), ...

and two canvasses by

Paris Bordone Paris Bordone (Paris Paschalinus Bordone; 5 July 1500 – 19 January 1571) was an Italian painter of the Venetian Renaissance who, despite training with Titian, maintained a strand of Mannerism, Mannerist complexity and provincial vigor. Biog ...

. The large fresco of ''Immaculate Conception'' in the apse is by

Antonio Beni Antonio Luigi Giovanni Beni (19 January 1866 – 30 December 1941) KSS was an Italian painter and architect, exponent of the neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance movement. Life Born in 1866 in San Giacomo di Musestrelle, near Treviso, Antonio Beni ...

. The church has an unfinished bell tower, whose construction, according to the tradition, was stopped by the Venetian government to prevent it from becoming taller than the campanile of St. Mark's Basilica. The crypt houses the tombs of the city's bishops. The Diocesan Museum is home to a fresco by

Tommaso da Modena Tomaso Barisini, better known as Tommaso da Modena and sometimes called Tomaso Baffini (1326 – 1379) was an Italian painter of the mid-14th century. Biography Tommaso trained in Venice and worked mostly in Northern Italy, but also worked for ...

. (Treviso) Duomo - Bell tower.jpg, Il campanile from ''Piazza Duomo'' (Treviso) Duomo - top of the campanile with the bells.jpg, Top of the campanile with the bells from ''Calmaggiore''

External links

Treviso Cathedral Chapter Library
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