No one seems to know who carved the figures or friezes along the aisles. This is often the case with sculpture in wood. It is remembered more as 'furniture' than as sculpture. The painted wood figures along the aisles are mostly Old Testament prophets, male and female Carmelite saints—and the ever-present patron of Venice, Saint Mark. We know that the carvings are 17th Century, but this type of polychrome/gilded wood decoration was popular much earlier, during the Byzantine period. It is another of those Venetian nods to bygone eras in its decoration, re-using designs and motifs of earlier centuries to convey an impression.