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In typical Franciscan fashion, the church's exterior is rather plain, but the interior is anything but plain. These images illustrate why Frari Church is one of Venice's art treasure troves. Unlike most art museums, the church provides viewers with the opportunity to see the artists' works in the setting in which they were intended to be viewed.

In the church's Chapter Room are the following: Paolo Veneziano’s “Madonna with Child” (c. 1339) on the mantle, Titian's "Madonna of the Pesaro Family" (commissioned by Bishop Pesaro, whose family later acquired the chapel in 1518), the Pesaro funerary monument, Giovanni Bellini's early renaissance triptych "Madonna and Child with Saints", the triptych of St. Mark, and early renaissance works.Read more