# Exterior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ARCHITECT, Italian]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary This Dominican church was begun c. 1303, although work continued throughout the century and the nave was not completed for four hundred years. The massing of the choir, the transepts, and the campanile is one of the finest architectural achievements of the mendicant orders. There is a notable compactness in the movement from the rectilinear transepts through the inner pair of absidal chapels to the great central polygon. The volumes of the projecting side chapels are cunningly related to the stepped-up rectilinear masses backing them. The outer form of the church is an accurate expression of the main internal volumes. View the <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/support/plans/zzzarchi/14c/3/2/treviso.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=400,height=600'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">ground plan</a> of San Nicolò, Treviso. ## Related artworks - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Apse of a basilica]() - [Arsenale Gateway]() - [Arsenale Gateway]() - [Basilica di Sant'Antonio: Chiostro del Noviziato]() - [Basilica Santi Nereo e Achilleo]() - [Ca' Foscari: Façade]() - [Chamber of the millers]() - [Chiesa dell'Incoronata: Interior of the dome]() - [Cloister gallery]() - [Detail of the façade]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()