Funerary Monument of Pietro Mocenigo

In the sculpture of Pietro Lombardo, the appearance of reality crystallises into a classical form that has the hieratic severity of late-Roman works. It is the humanist culture of Padua, enriched by the brilliant reading of Byzantine monuments made by the great architect and sculptor, that replaces Florentine realistic classicism with the rational, abstracting classicism of erudite imitation, practised almost always on peripheral, provincial models.