Vicenza Cathedral

Facade - Gable

The original facade is Gothic and attributed to Domenico da Venezia 16th century. It is divided into four sections: the lower one has five arches in transoms, the second with arches in the center of an oculus, the third is smooth, the fifth is decorated with five statues (and two pinnacles added in 1948).

The bell tower

It is slightly detached from the church and placed in the street that runs along the south side of the cathedral. It rests on a 10th-century stone base, the bell tower dates from the twelfth century and has five bells, in the chord of Eb, the oldest still in place was cast in the seventeenth century.

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  Facade - Gable
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  The bell tower

Remarkable elements

Left nave

• The first chapel on the left, Thiene chapel with funerary monument to Lavinia Thiene, by Giulio Romano (1544) and on the right wall, a cenotaph with the arms of the Thiene family and Saint Cajetan.
• Second chapel on the left, an oil on canvas by Alessandro Maganza: Adorazione della Vergine con gli Angeli 1581

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  View of interior
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  Thiene Chapel
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  Monument to Lavinia Thiene by Giulio Romano
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  Cenotaph of the Thiene family and Saint Cajetan
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  Second chapel on the left
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  Adorazione della Vergine con gli Angeli by Alessandro Maganza

• Third chapel on the left dedicated to the Loschi family. Above the altarpiece are the arms of the family. Tombstones of Alfonso Loschi and Antonio Loschi.
• The fourth chapel on the left shows an oil on canvas Madonna col bambino tra le Sante Maddalena e Lucia, by Bartolomeo Montagna
• Fifth chapel on the left : Chapel of the Incoronata or Gonfalone built in 1426 by the ancient fraglia of S. Maria, transformed around 1591 in the Confraternity of the Gonfalone.

The altarpiece shows the Incoronazione della Vergine (1448), by Antonino di Niccolò da Venezia. Bas-relief in polychrome stone, representing Christ before the Lord who crowns Mary, kneeling on the right.

On the left wall the funerary monument of Girolamo Bencucci, known in France as Jérôme Sclede, bishop of the ancient diocese of Vaison.

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  Third chapel on the left dedicated to the Loschi family
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  Monument to Alfonso Loschi
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  Monumento to Antonio Loschi
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  The fourth chapel on the left
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  Madonna col bambino tra le Sante Maddalena e Lucia, by Bartolomeo Montagna
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  Chapel of the Incoronata
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  Incoronazione della Vergine (1448) by Antonino di Niccolò da Venezia
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  Funerary monument of Girolamo Bencucci

Right nave

• Chapel of the baptismal font - The present work dates from 1824. Work of the brothers Sguarise stone cutters on a drawing of the Antonian Bernati Bassanese. On the lid there is a small statue of Saint John the Baptist of Girolamo Albanese (XVII century).
• Chapel of St. James and St. Anthony the Great - Dormitio Virginis, polyptyque de Lorenzo Veneziano (1366). On the left wall the sarcophagus of Tommaso and Giampietro de Proti.
• Chapel of St. Jerome - The oldest one, founded in 1383 by Bishop Giovanni de Surdis, was then repeatedly remodeled, preserves today the two funerary monuments to Girolamo and Giovanni Battista Gualdo (16th c.) with the busts of the sarcophagus by Alessandro Vittoria.

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  Chapel of the baptismal font
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  Chapel of St. James and St. Anthony the Great
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  Sarcophagus of Tommaso and Giampietro de Proti.
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  Chapel of St. Jerome

Organ

Organ Mascioni opus 721

In the last chapel on the right, there is the Mascioni opus 721 rod, built in 1955 and subsequently expanded. The instrument is electrically powered and its console, independent mobile, has three keyboards of 61 notes each and a concave-radial pedal of 32 notes.