Crest of Doge Marcantonio Memmo

The art of Alessandro Vittoria, the most original interpreter of Venetian Mannerism in the field of sculpture, was to influence sculptors of the younger generation greatly. The most important part of Vittoria’s visual language was adopted by his contemporaries, those same sculptors who, in the Venice of the late Cinquecento, had already demonstrated their independence, in particular Girolamo Campagna and Giulio dell’ Angolo del Moro, both sculptors and architects, the latter a painter too.

Giulio also worked in stucco decoration, carrying on another sixteenth-century tradition which, thanks to his gifts as sculptor, gives elegant results in two allegories that flank the coat of arms of Doge Marcantonio Memmo above the door of the Sala degli Scudieri in the Palazzo Ducale.