Neptune, the god of the sea, in the middle on the pedestal, was sculpted by Giovanni Antonio Comin, and 'Bellona' on the right, was signed by Francesco Penso called Cabianca. In Roman mythology, Bellona was a goddess of war. Her temple was near that of Mars in Rome. It is thought by some that she was the wife of Mars, the god of war.
Francesco Penso
b. 1665 - d. 1737
Called Cabianca, Francesco Penso spent some of his working life in Dalmatia because of his health. There, between 1698-1708, he made a number of church altars. Cabianca's works are also in the courtyard of the Frari. He carved a Bellona in stone for the entrance to the Arsenal. His 'St. John the Evangelist' and 'St. James' appear in niches on the facade of the church of the Gesuiti, and 'St. Andrew' on the crowning balustrade.
Giovanni Comin
Active 1673 - 1695
He came from a family of sculptors and architects of Treviso. He moved to Venice in the 1670's and made marble figures of Rachel, St. Julian, and two groups of marble putti for the church of Santa Giustina in Padua. He was influenced by Juste de Court, Arrigo Meyring, and a collaborated with them and Michele Ungaro in Venice, for example, on St. Luke and a Bishop Saint in San Nicolo in 1680. He did the marble inlay decoration for the altar frontal in Santa Maria del Giglio. He continued to work in Treviso, and c.1690 he made the Marchetti mausoleum for the basilica of San Antonio in Padua. In 1693, he sculpted Pope Benedict XI, also for a church of San Nicolo, in Treviso.
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