# Funerary monument to Giuliano Cybo: Abraham [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PORTA, Guglielmo della]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Marble, height 170 cm ## Commentary As an independent sculptor, Guglielmo worked on several figures for the Cybo monument, a commission begun in 1533. Guglielmo's contributions to this monument are the figures of Giuliano Cybo \(rediscovered in 1955\) and of Abraham. Abraham is Guglielmo's first masterpiece. In this figure, which is located on the left projecting socle of the monument, the heavy drapery, flowing beard and musculature show detailed attention to texture and volume. Abraham's sharp and forceful contrapposto movement creates a tension absent in the other figures on the monument. The picture shows the figure of Abraham. ## Related artworks - [Allegories of Roman Peace and Public Wealth]() - [Bacchanalian Feast]() - [Baldacchino]() - [Baldacchino]() - [Battle between Perseus and Phineus]() - [Bust of Pope Paul III]() - [Deposition]() - [Diana and Callisto]() - [Farnese Hercules]() - [Flaying of Marsyas]() - [Funerary monument to Giuliano Cybo: Abraham]() - [Funerary monument to Giuliano Cybo: effigy of Giuliano Cybo]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()