
Brenzoni chapel
Brenzoni chapel
Brenzoni chapel
Audio transcription
On the right wall hangs the funeral monument of the jurist Bernardo Brenzoni, who had this chapel built in 1495. His tombstone is on the floor. On the altar of the chapel is an eighteenth-century painting depicting the Madonna and Child between Saints Fermo and Rustico, while the glass cases contain two exquisite liturgical vestments found in 2005 inside the tomb of the two martyred saints.
On the left wall of the entrance we see the fine Nichesola altarpiece, painted in 1504 by Giovanni Maria Falconetto. On the left side of the chapel, there is the fifteenth-century funeral monument of Barnaba da Morano, placed here in 1814. Here, the sculptor Antonio da Mestre and painter Martino da Verona collaborated once again. In addition to the fresco of the Last Judgement, they depicted the rare episode of The Encounter of the Three Living with the Three Dead, derived from the French theme of Memento mori. Under the funeral arch, three knights on a hunting trip come across three tombs side by side: in the first, the recently deceased man is still wearing his sumptuous clothes; in the second, the body is in an advanced state of mummification; in the third, only a skeleton remains. This is a clear moral lesson, contrasting the vanity of earthly goods, the temptation of immortality and the reality of human destiny.


