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The church of San Lorenzo is a Catholic place of worship in Vicenza, built in the late thirteenth century in Gothic style, in its Lombard-Padana version of the thirteenth century. It is located in the central Piazza San Lorenzo, along Corso Fogazzaro, and was officiated by the Conventual Franciscans until 2017. In agreement with the style of the churches built by the mendicant orders in Italy in the XIII century - the Lombard Gothic that does not abandon the forms completely of the Romanesque - the façade presents in the upper half the typical hut profile and in the lower half seven high ogival arches, characteristic elements of Venetian architecture, which are also found in the most important Paduan churches of the thirteenth century.
The most prominent element is the portal, built in the 1440s by the Venetian sculptor and architect Andriolo de Santi and financed with a testamentary bequest by a Cangrande della Scala councilor, Pietro da Marano known as the Nano, who hoped with this munificent act of freeing oneself from the burden of a life lived by practicing usury. He is depicted in the splendid lunette of the portal, kneeling in the attitude of a penitent before Mary and the Child, with Saints Francis and Lorenzo at his side. Around, among the acanthus, five busts of prophets on the left, of patriarchs on the right.
The busts of St. Paul and the apostles are along the jambs. The blessing Christ is at the center of the architrave. On his right are Saints Vincent, Lodovico, Francesco and Giovanni Evangelista, on the left Lorenzo, Antonio, Chiara and Stefano, four figures of the tradition, four of the Franciscan repertoire. At the lower and upper ends of the jambs are the symbols of the Evangelists. On the columns above the column-bearing lions there are the nunziante Angel and the announced Virgin.

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