# Corbinelli Altar [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SANSOVINO, Andrea]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary The outstanding achievement of Sansovino's early period is the Corbinelli Altar, a commission he received soon after the chapel was granted to the family in 1485. From the beginning relief played a greater part in the work of Andrea Sansovino than in that of any other sculptor of his time. The Corbinelli altar was planned primarily in relief; it included a lunette relief of the Coronation of the Virgin, two tondi of the Annunciation, a relief predella and an antependium relief with the Lamentation over the Dead Christ. The triumphal arch motif of the altar is closely related to that in Benedetto da Maiano's <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/maiano/benedett/annuncia.html'\)" href="/html/m/maiano/benedett/annuncia.html">contemporary Annunciation altar</a> \(Sant'Anna dei Lombardi, Naples\) but with much bolder reference to the Arch of Constantine in Rome. In the Corbinelli Altar, Sansovino demonstrated his great versatility as a sculptor, employing a variety of styles and figure types in the carving of the reliefs and sculpture in the round. This work established him as the successor to the 15th-century masters Donatello and Desiderio da Settignano. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Frieze for the portico \(detail\)]() - [Frieze for the portico \(detail\)]() - [Frieze for the portico \(detail\)]() - [Frieze for the portico \(detail\)]() - [Frieze for the portico]() - [Madonna and Child with St Anne]() - [Madonna and Child with St Anne]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()