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After Michelangelo, Il Riccio is undoubtedly the most outstanding sculptor of the first quarter of the Cinquecento, and from Padua he dominated the Veneto until his death in 1532. The reliefs he executed for the della Torre monument are the sculptural equivalents in Northern Italy of Raphael's tapestry cartoons, and they are among the most explicit expressions of High Renaissance Classicism in all Italy.
The della Torre tomb was removed from Verona to Paris with its accompanying reliefs by Napoleon.
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