40 Dominican Scholars (detail)

Tommaso da Modena was commissioned to paint a fresco cycle in the Chapter House of San Niccolò in Treviso representing the famous saints of the Dominicans. The cycle contains 40 monks, each in his own cell, sitting at a writing desk.

This series of famous members of the Dominican order constitutes one of the most impressive examples of physiognomic realism from this period.