Monument to Pietro Roccabonella (fragment)

Bellano’s monument to Pietro Roccabonella (d. 1491) in San Francesco, Padua, was completed by Andrea Riccio in 1498 after Bellano’s death. The tomb has not survived in its original form, but two large bronze reliefs, one of the Virgin and Child with Sts Anthony of Padua and Peter Martyr and the other showing Roccabonella in his study, and two bronze statuettes of putti formed part of it and are still in the church. The second relief was a model for other scholars’ tombs in the early 16th century.

Pietro Roccabonella was a well known professor of medicine in Padua.