It is worthy of remark that sculpture, in this stage, continued to be decorative.

Fountains are among the most successful monuments of the late Renaissance.

Even Montorsoli's fountain at Messina is in a high sense picturesquely beautiful.
Casting a glance backward over the foregoing sketch of Italian sculpture, it will be seen that three distinct stages were traversed in the evolution of this art.

The first may be called architectural, the second pictorial, the third neo-pagan.

Defined by their artistic purposes, the first idealises Christian motives; the second is naturalistic; the third attempts an idealisation inspired by revived paganism.