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We are now in the chapel, once the monks’ refectory.
Let us enjoy an overview of this large, bright, rectangular room with a rib vaulted ceiling and four large windows with stone jambs. The side walls feature four large frescoes, while two more tower from the top of the end wall. The virtues are portrayed above the real and fake windows. The end walls were probably originally frescoed. Also, the historian Rossetti speaks of two other large paintings of which we have lost all trace; these may have been plundered in 1810, when Napoleon drove the monks out, closed the monastery and sanctuary down, and took all the paintings and sacred objects with him. The frescoes in this room are by Giambattista Zelotti (1526-1578), a pupil of Veronese. The crucifix and the statues of Mary Help of Christians and St John Bosco are in wood and come from Ortisei.
Let us stop a moment before the large frescoes, starting from the first on the left.