# Monument of Sixtus IV [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POLLAIUOLO brothers]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Bronze, length 445 cm ## Commentary Antonio del Pollaiuolo's final commissions were the papal tombs of Sixtus IV and his successor Innocent VIII. The huge bronze tomb of Sixtus IV occupied the artist and his workshop nine years after the pope's death in 1484. The recumbent pope, wearing tiara and pontifical vestments, is surrounded by reliefs representing the seven Virtues \(Charity, Hope, Prudence, Fortitude, Faith, Temperance, and Justice\). Below these, on the sides of the tomb, separated by acanthus consoles, are the ten Liberal Arts \(Philosophy, Theology, Rhetoric, Grammar, Arithmetic, Astrology, Dialectic, Geometry, Music, and Perspective\). The portrait of Sixtus seems to emphasize the pope's hawk-like features and sagging flesh. The complex folds of the pope's vestments and the drapery of the allegorical figures are the sculptural counterpart of the drapery in the paintings of the Pollaiuolo brothers. ## Related artworks - [Altarpiece of the Sts Vincent, James, and Eustace]() - [Angel \(detail\)]() - [Apollo and Daphne]() - [Battle of Ten Nudes]() - [Battle of Ten Nudes]() - [Battle of Ten Nudes]() - [Bust of a Young Warrior]() - [David Victorious]() - [Hercules and Antaeus]() - [Hercules and Antaeus]() - [Hercules and Antaeus]() - [Hercules and Antaeus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()