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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 932 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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family of Venetian sculptors and architects; their surname was apparently Solaro, and the name of Lombardo was given to the earliest known, Martino, who emigrated from See also:Lombardy to See also:Venice in the See also:middle of the 15th See also:century and became celebrated as an architect. He had two sons, See also:Moro and Pietro, of whom the latter (c. 1435-1515) was one of the greatest sculptors and architects of his See also:time, while his sons See also:Antonio (d. 1516) and Tullio (d. 1559) were hardly less celebrated. Pietro's See also:work as an architect is seen in numerous churches, the Vendramini-Calargi See also:palace (1481), the See also:doge's palace (1498), the See also:facade (x485) of the scuola of St See also:Mark and the See also:cathedral of Cividale del See also:Friuli (1502); but he is now more famous as a sculptor, often in collaboration with his sons; he executed the See also:tomb of the doge See also:Mocenigo (1478) in the See also:church of See also:San Giovanni e See also:Paolo at Venice, and a bas-See also:relief for the tomb of See also:Dante at See also:Ravenna, and in 1483 began the beautiful decorations in the church of Sta Maria de' Miracoli at Venice, which is associated with his workshop (see also VENICE for numerous references to the work of the Lombardi). Antonio's See also:master-piece is the See also:marble relief of St See also:Anthony making a new-See also:born See also:child speak in See also:defence of its See also:mother's See also:honour, in the Santo at See also:Padua (1505). Tullio's best-known See also:works are the four kneeling angels (1484) in the church of San Martino, Venice, a See also:coronation of the Virgin in San Giovanni Crisostomo and two bas-reliefs in the Santo, Padua, besides two others formerly in the Spitzer collec-tion, representing See also:Vulcan's Forge and See also:Minerva disputing with See also:Neptune.

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