Danese Cattaneo

In Sansovino's circle at Venice, he made a reputation in 1530 with his St Jerome at the base of the organ in San Salvador.

Once again in Venice, he was part of the collaborative team providing architectural enrichments for Sansovino's great projects.

According to Giorgio Vasari, Danese composed the rich iconographic program himself:[6] Apollo is a young man, sitting on a globe, his head radiant; in the right hand are metal rods, and in the left a sceptre, at the top of which is an eye.

He also participated in four statues for Doge Leonardo Loredan's monument in the Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo.

Giorgio Vasari owed to conversations with Danese many details of Venetian artists in his Vite.