# Statues in the apse [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MONTORSOLI, Giovanni Angelo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary Montorsoli's works in Genoa include the decoration of the Doria family church, San Matteo. There he furnished the apse with five niche figures and the presbytery walls with polychrome marble incrustation and reliefs of the Evangelists beside the tombs of saints; the ceiling and cupola were decorated with figural stuccowork. He also executed the marble tomb of Andrea Doria for the crypt. The picture shows Montorsoli's marble statues in the niches of the apse \(from left to right\): David, St John the Baptist, the Pietà, St Andrew, Jeremiah. ## Related artworks - [Belvedere Apollo]() - [Blessed Ubaldo Adimari]() - [Charles V]() - [Charles V]() - [Drunken Satyr]() - [Fontana del Nettuno \(detail\)]() - [Fontana del Nettuno \(detail\)]() - [Fontana del Nettuno]() - [Fontana di Orione]() - [Fontana di Orione]() - [High Altar \(detail\)]() - [High Altar \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()