Tomb of Ubertino da Carrara (detail)

Ubertino da Carrara (d. 1345) was an Italian politician and condottiero. He was the lord of Padua from 1339 until his death. He was buried in the church of Sant’Agostino in Padua. In 1820, when the church was demolished, the tomb was moved to the Church of the Eremitani, where it is still located.

In Andriolo de Santi’s the tomb of Raniero degli Arsendi at the Santo, Padua, (1358) the tabernacles housing the carved figures are raised above the level of the top of the sarcophagus, and the figures themselves are planned as statuettes rather than as reliefs. The tomb of Ubertino da Carrara, also by Andriolo, follows the same plan, and by the end of the 1350s this had spread to Verona, in the boldly conceived monument designed by Andriolo de Santi for Giovanni della Scala (Scaliger Tombs, Santa Maria Antica, Verona).

The picture shows the tomb of Ubertino da Carrara.