Tommaso da Modena

In Karlstein Castle, two pictures on wood are attributed to him, an Ecce Homo and a Madonna.

In 1352 as an expression of the Dominican intellectual vocation Tommaso was commissioned to paint a fresco cycle of 40 Dominicans scholars at their desks including Popes, Cardinals, theologians, and philosophers.

The work is in the chapter room of the former Dominican convent of San Nicolo' at Treviso, now a seminary.

Among others, the cycle portrays Cardinal Annibale Annibaldi, Doctor of the Church Thomas Aquinas, Cardinal Hugh Aycelin, and Cardinal Latino Malabranca Orsini, all of whom were professors of the Dominican studium at Santa Sabina the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, as well as Bishop and Doctor of the Church Albert the Great founder of the Dominican studium at Cologne, and renowned biblical commentator Cardinal Hugh of Saint-Cher.

The portrait of Saint-Cher is the earliest known depiction of a person wearing spectacles.