The study reconstructs the circumstances of the Sacristy’s decorations of Sant’Antonio church in Trieste,
commissioned to the painter Giovanni Kandler in 1835, named Nane (Trieste 1803-1865), brother of Pietro
Kandler. The historian painter, formed at the Venice Academy, works in one of the most important sites of the
city, in the first half of the nineteenth century, realizing a series of sacred lunettes. An occasion to specify, even
through archive research, the still unknown personality of the artist who in 1833 had painted a lost altarpiece
depicting Il martirio di San Sergio, in the church of San Giusto, of which some preparatory drawings were
discovered.
