Sarcophagus of Giovanni and Piero de' Medici

Set in an arched opening, screened by a curtain of bronze mesh, the sarcophagus takes on the value of an inspired piece of architecture. But it is in the turgid flowering of the bronze racemes on the polychrome body of the marbles, and in the animal figures of the supports, that the “animistic” conception of the world is fully revealed, a conception that makes every substance, even inorganic, share in the vital energy.