LOMBARDO, Tullio
(b. ca. 1460, d. 1532, Venezia)

Monument of Andrea Vendramin (detail)

1480-95
Marble
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice

In this monument, the doge rests in a sumptuous catafalque beneath a projecting baldachin with a barrel vault. The bed itself rests upon a sarcophagus with niches containing the seven Virtues. Tullio did not personally do all the sculptures. A sculptor totally dedicated to classical , toga-clad figures carved the Virtues on the sarcophagus.

The picture shows four figures of the Virtues.