# BON, Giovanni [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1355–1443 - Profession: architect - School: Italian ## Biography Venetian sculptor and architect. With his son, Bartolomeo, he ran the most successful Venetian sculpture workshop of the period. Father and son took on a number of joint commissions until Giovanni’s death, but the latter’s contribution seems to have been a minor one. Attributions to Giovanni and Bartolomeo are many and so diverse that no consensus has been reached on their oeuvre. A complete lack of secure attributions to Giovanni has meant that there is no reliable basis for a reconstruction and appraisal of his career. Major work of the shop include the decoration of the Ca d'Oro \(1422-34\) and the Porta della Carta \(1438-42\) of the Doges' Palace. They epitomize the survival of the Gothic style in Venice into the mid-Quattrocento. ## Related artworks - [Palazzo Barbaro: Façade]() - [Palazzo Barbaro: Façade]() - [Porta della Carta]() - [The Fall of Adam and Eve]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()