This is especially true of two angels kneeling upon the altar of the Chapel of the Sacrament in Lucca Cathedral.

Civitali, by singular good fortune, was chosen in the best years of his life to adorn the cathedral of his native city; and it is here, rather than at Genoa, where much of his sculpture may also be seen, that he deserves to be studied.

For the people of Lucca he designed the Chapel of the Santo Volto--a gem of the purest Renaissance architecture--and a pulpit in the same style.

His most remarkable sculpture is to be found in three monuments: the tombs of Domenico Bertini and Pietro da Noceto, and the altar of S.Regulus.The last might be chosen as an epitome of all that is most characteristic in Tuscan sculpture of the earlier Renaissance.

It is built against the wall, and architecturally designed so as to comprehend a full-length figure of the bishop stretched upon his bier and watched by angels, a group of Madonna and her child seated above him, a row of standing saints below, and a predella composed of four delicately finished bas-reliefs.