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Bonino da Campione, the Milanese, who may have had a hand in the Arca di S. Agostino, carved the tomb of Can Signorio. That of Mastino II. was executed by another Milanese, Perino. See Trucchi, Poesie Italiane inedite, vol. ii. See the Illustrated work, Il Tabernacolo della Madonna d'Or sammichele, Firenze, 1851.
In the hands of Brunelleschi it was stern and powerful; Bramante made it chaste, elegant and graceful; Palladio made it formal, cold, symmetrical; while with Sansovino and Sammichele it became sumptuous and bombastic. As the Renaissance ripened to decay its architecture assumed more and more the characteristics which distinguished that of Rome during the decadence.
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