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During the 1480s the Lombardo shop was very busy with a series of tomb commissions in and around Venice, including the tomb of Jacopo Marcello, a sea captain and commander of the Venetian fleet, who died at Gallipoli in 1484. These are all pensile wall tombs of modest scale, in which the sarcophagi and commemorative plaques are framed by oval cornices. This format derives from the arrangement of the central section of the Pietro Mocenigo tomb, isolated and reshaped as an oval.
On the sarcophagus of the Jacopo Marcello monument stands the hero armed for battle; on either side two pages bear his shields. The elegant sarcophagus is held up by three mis-shapen men. The monument has an oval marble frame, surrounded by frescoes of helmets, armour and horns. Above is a fresco by the Veronese school (15th century), depicting the hero's triumphal chariot.
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