TOMMASO DA MODENA
(b. ca. 1325, Modena, d. 1379, Modena)

Saint Albert the Great

1352
Fresco
Chapter House, San Niccolò, Treviso

Tommaso da Modena was commissioned to paint a fresco cycle in the Chapter House of San Niccolò in Treviso representing the famous saints of the Dominicans. The cycle contains 40 monks, each in his own cell, sitting at a writing desk. The picture shows one of them, St Albert the Great, the master of Thomas of Aquinas.