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This monument is typical of several trends in funerary monuments during the later sixteenth century. It occupies the entire entrance wall of the church and consists of three busts of three generations of the same family who successively became procurators of San Marco. The idea probably originated with the middle generation, Giovanni da Lezze, who commissioned it in 1576, and had his own and his father's (Priamo's) earlier busts installed. The bust of Giovanni's son Andrea was added in the early seventeenth century. The motif of a tomb surmounted by a bust appears to have originated with Alessandro Vittoria, and it became a popular feature in many late-sixteenth-century memorials.
The bust of Priamo is by Vittoria, those of Giovanni and Andrea by Giulio Angolo del Moro.
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