The Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, usually just called the Frari, is one of the greatest churches of enice and has the status of a minor basilica. It stands on the Campo dei Frari at the
heart of the San Polo district of the city. The church is dedicated to the Assumption (Assunzione della
Beata irgine).

The Franciscans were granted land to build a church in 1250, but the building was not completed until 1338. Work almost immediately began on its much larger replacement, the current church, which took over a century to build. The campanile, the second tallest in the city after that of San Marco, was completed in 1396.

The imposing church is built of brick in the Italian Gothic style. As with many enetian churches, the exterior is rather plain. The interior contains the only rood screven still in place in enice.

The Frari is a parish church of the icariate of San Polo-Santa Croce-Dorsoduro. The other churches of the parish are San Barnaba, San Ludoico escoo, Santa Maria del Soccorso and Santa Margherita.


Works of Art:

-Gioanni Bellini (Madonna and Child with SS Nicholas of Bari, Peter, Mark and Benedict, the
sacristy altarpiece)

-Gioanni Bellini (Madonna and Child with SS Nicholas of Bari, Peter, Mark and Benedict, the
sacristy altarpiece)
-Bartolomeo Bon's workshop (figures of the irgin and St Francis on the west front)
-Antonio and Paolo Bregno (tomb of Doge Francesco Fóscari in the chancel (attributed; may actually be by Niccolò di Gioanni Fiorentino))
-Lorenzo Bregno (tomb of Benedetto Pésaro aboe the sacristy door; tomb of Alise Pasqualino on the west wall)
-Girolamo Campagna (statuettes of St Anthony of Padua and St Agnes on the water stoups in the
nae)
-Marco Cozzi (choir stalls in ritual choir)

-Donatello (figure of St John the Baptist in the first south choir chapel, Donatello's first
documented work in enice)
-Tullio Lombardo (tomb of Pietro Bernardo on the west wall (attributed; may actually be by
Gioanni Buora))
-Antonio Rizzo (tomb of Doge Niccolò Tron in the chancel)
-Jacopo Sansoino (damaged figure of St John the Baptist on the font in the Capella Corner)
-Titian (Assumption, the altarpiece of the high altar and the largest altarpiece in enice;
Madonna di Ca'Pésaro on the north wall of the nae)
-Paolo eneziano (Doge Francesco Dandolo and his wife presented to the irgin by SS Francis and Elizabeth in the sacristy)
-Alessandro ittoria (figure of The Risen Christ on the west front; figure of St Jerome on the
south wall of the nae)
-Alise iarini (St Ambrose and other Saints in the north transept chapel, his last work)
-Bartolomeo iarini (St Mark Enthroned in the Capella Corner in the north transept; Madonna
and Child with Saints, altarpiece in the third south choir chapel)

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