TIRALI, Andrea
(b. 1657, Venezia, d. 1737, Monselice)

San Nicolò da Tolentino: Façade

1706-14
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Campo dei Tolentini, Venice

Andrea Tirali was commissioned to construct a façade on an unfinished sixteenth-century building that had been started by Sansovino. The imposing façade is structured around a protruding pronaos (an open vestibule before the cella of a Greek temple) where six tall Corinthian columns support a triangular tympanum.