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At the beginning of the right aisle there is the tomb of Giano Fregoso, doge of Venice and captain of the Venetian militia. The monument was made by Danese Cattaneo, one of Jacopo Sansovino’s best students and is described in detail in Giorgio Vasari’s “lives of the painters”.
The altar, built between 1562 and 1565, is a triumphal arch with fluted columns and capitals from the Corinthian order: the portrait of Giano Fregoso in military dress and a military Virtue are on pedestals. In the centre, in the aedicule, there is the figure of Christ the Redeemer and, in the reliefs, reinforced Venice and the victory. On the sides of the entablature there are Fame and Eternity.
