AFTER JACOPO SANSOVINO (ITALIAN, 1486-1570): AN 18TH CENTURY ITALIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF MARS the standing figure wearing a plumed helmet, his drapery in his left hand and a shield beside the draped tree trunk, on a square base, mid brown patination, 30cm high This finely executed bronze statuette is a reduction of Sansovino's large Renaissance statue of Mars on the Giants' Staircase entrance to the Doge's Palace in Venice, Italy.