Chiesa di Santa Caterina

The Church of Saint Catherine in Asolo was built by the Confraternity of the Battuti, a lay brotherhood established in the town in the early fourteenth century. Its single-hall interior preserves frescoes created in two campaigns, from the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries and in the early sixteenth century.

Why it matters

The Battuti founded the adjacent hospital, which served Asolo until the early twentieth century, when the new civic hospital opened. The church’s frescoes record the confraternity’s religious life and the building’s development over several centuries.

What to notice

The church has a gabled facade with a central oculus and a single-hall interior. Its first fresco cycle dates to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. An early-sixteenth-century restoration added the surviving scenes from the life of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and the Passion of Christ.

Context and history

The Battuti were present in Asolo from the early 1300s and built the church alongside their hospital. The interior was first decorated in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, then altered in an early-sixteenth-century restoration. The church is part of the parish of Santa Maria Assunta.