Lombardo was born in
Venice, the son of
Pietro Lombardo and brother of
Tullio Lombardo. The
Lombardo family worked together to sculpt church decorations and tombs such as the funerary monument of
Pietro Mocenigo. Their work can be observed in the Franciscan church of
San Giobbe in Venice. He trained in his father’s workshop, but unlike his father and brother Tullio, he practised sculpture exclusively. He also worked in bronze, and his output encompasses secular and mythological subjects as well as sacred pieces. He and his brother designed the Malchiostro Chapel in the
Cattedrale di San Pietro Apostolo in Treviso. In 1504 Lombardo was commissioned to build a funerary chapel in the atrium of the
Basilica of San Marco for Cardinal
Giovanni Battista Zen. Lombardo is credited with both the design of the chapel and the bronze figures of the Madonna and Child. His 1505 marble relief of
St. Anthony making a new-born child speak in defense of its mother's honor, in the
Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua, has been cited as his masterpiece. In 1506 he moved to Ferrara, where he worked as marble master for
Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Twenty-eight marble reliefs attributed to Lombardo are now in the
Hermitage, St Petersburg. Lombardo died in
Ferrara. File:Peace Establishing her Reign by Lombardo.jpg|
Peace Establishing her Reign, bronze of c. 1512 in the
National Gallery of Art File:1516 Antonio Lombardo - Venus Anadyomene.jpg|Venus Anadyomene, c.1516 ==References==