# Funeral Monument of Cardinal Rainaldo Brancacci \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELOZZO DI BARTOLOMEO]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary Funeral Monument of Cardinal Rainaldo Brancacci \(detail\) c. 1427 Marble Sant'Angelo a Nilo, Naples The Brancaccio tomb in Sant'Angelo a Nilo is an example of the floor-standing baldacchino type, based on Angevin tombs as well as Roman examples, reinterpreted in an early Renaissance architectural vocabulary usually attributed to Michelozzo. The sarcophagus, surmounted by a canopy supported by composite columns, is carried by marble caryatids - a favourite motif in Neapolitan tombs - which are probably the work of Michelozzo. Their identities are still uncertain, being either Christian Virtues or Classical Fates, although they appear to derive from Roman reliefs of religious processions but with an added movement that appears to capture an instant in the funeral ceremony. The simplification of the angular figures recalls both classical prototypes, especially their idealized heads, and the work of other 14th-century artists such as Giovanni Pisano. ## Related artworks - [Corridor of the North Dormitory]() - [Courtyard]() - [Courtyard]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Funeral Monument of Cardinal Rainaldo Brancacci \(detail\)]() - [Funeral Monument of Cardinal Rainaldo Brancacci]() - [Funeral Monument to the Anti-pope John XXIII \(detail\)]() - [Funeral Monument to the Anti-pope John XXIII \(detail\)]() - [Funeral Monument to the Anti-pope John XXIII \(detail\)]() - [Funeral Monument to the Anti-pope John XXIII \(detail\)]() - [Funeral Monument to the Anti-pope John XXIII]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()