Villa Forni Cerato’s fireplaces (3)

Palladio knows the use of the motif of the volutes as a support element (#BaldassarrePeruzzi and #SebastianoSerlio), as it is shown by the relief of a sarcophagus now preserved at the Musei Civici Vicenza, datable to the mid-1540s, featuring volutes ending with lion paws.