Saint Nicholas from Bari

The fresco, probably realized in two different periods, has been used for two centuries as an altarpiece of the same altar and shows Saint Nicholas from Bari in bishop's vestments carrying the book with three golden knobs in his right hand and in the left the pastoral crosier in the left one. The Saint stands in a small temple with low composite columns with floral decorations in front of a wooden balustrade that separates him from two angels whose stylistic construction makes us think of an author later than the one who painted the Saint, probably in the first decades of the '400. The image is cut off at the bottom by the frame of the eighteenth-century altarpiece whose surface also contains remnants of the original floral decoration. A hypothesis linked to the painting stylistic features suggests that the image of the Saint has been made in the fifteenth century whereas the iconography with the pictures of the angels have been attributed to a 1610 painter as stated in the inscription below. We do not have definite information about its probable authors.