UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian
(active 1500s in Venice)

Monument to Niccolò Orsini

1509
Gilded wood
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice

The monument on the wall of the basilica is to Niccolò Orsini, Count of Pitigliano, defender of Padua against the Cambrai League. The wooden equestrian statue was executed by an unknown artist. The two Virtues on the sides are from Tullio Lombardo.