Virtue Crowning Merit
by BONAZZA, Giovanni, Marble
This group is on the funeral monument to the Valier family in the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. It is a detail of the lower order between two arches. In the group the sculptor successfully manages to soften the plastic consistency of the images by fragmenting the play of the drapery and painstakingly sculpting the detail. In this way, he obtained a lively and painterly effect.