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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Monument to Doge Pasquale Malipiero
Image View:
Overall view; lunette contains a Pieta, topped with three allegorical statues
Creator:
Pietro Lombardo (Italian sculptor, ca. 1435-1515)
Location:
repository: Santi Giovanni e Paolo (San Zanipolo) (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
Location Note:
Campo San Giovanni e Paolo, Castello sestiere
GPS:
45.4392 12.3421
Date:
ca. 1467 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
monument
Work Type 2:
sculpture (visual work)
Work Type 3:
sarcophagus
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
marble
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Subjects:
allegory; death or burial; funerary art; rulers and leaders; Venetian
Description:
After the 15th century the funeral services of all of Venice's doges were held in San Zanipolo, and twenty-five doges are buried in the church. Pasquale Malipiero, called the dux pacificus (1392-1462) was a Venetian statesman who served as the 66th Doge of Venice from October 30, 1457 until his death. Pietro’s first tomb in Venice, probably dates from the late 1460s, is also derived from Florentine wall tombs, but by omitting the elaborate enframing architecture, Pietro transformed the Florentine prototype into a Venetian type, the pensile (hanging) wall tomb embellished by a tent-like baldacchino hanging around the doge’s sarcophagus. In the lunette is a Pietà. The three statues represent Justice, Abundance and Peace. In the roundels are the coats of arms and the lion of St Mark. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-LOMBAR-BSG-FMM-A 01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Monument to Doge Pasquale Malipiero