[8][dubious – discuss] It can possibly be attributed to a goldsmith of the Capobianco family,[9] as is supported by a document found in 2012 in the "Sanctuary of the Madonna" of Monte Berico.

The citizens offered the Jewel as an ex-voto to the "Madonna of Mount Berico"[7] in order to avoid the Plague of Saint Charles Borromeo that had spread two years before in the Duchy of Milan with some infection cases in the western cities of the Republic of Venice and up to Verona.[when?]

The competition was won by the architect Romano Concato from Trissino, who compensated for the absence of original drawings by studying two paintings by Francesco Maffei and two others by Alessandro Maganza.

[citation needed] The reconstruction was also developed by referencing medieval planimetrics of the city, the Pianta Angelica, designed by Giovanni Pittoni in 1580.

[4] In September 2012, at the Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari the finished tray was presented with its first complete building, the Church of San Lorenzo.

[21] Quando, nel 1577, i vicentini vogliono presentare alla Madonna di Monte Berico, in ringraziamento dello scampato flagello della peste, un "modello" della città in legno rivestito d'argento, la cara "piccola patria" vi appare ripresa, con ineccepibile quanto significativa, drastica "semplificazione", chiusa nell'anello circolare rappresentato dalla città più antica con le sue cinque porti principali.

Scomparso il "modello" sciaguratamente distrutto dai Francesi nel 1797, possiamo, infatti, fortunatamente verificarlo grazie a due puntuali rese pittoriche, non-molto più tarde, di Alessandro Maganza e di Francesco Maffei: senza peraltro dimenticare che all'"invenzione" del "modello", non era rimasto estraneo, nel 1578, lo stesso Palladio.

When, in 1577, the people of Vicenza wanted to present to the Madonna di Monte Berico, in thanksgiving for the survived scourge of the plague, a "model" of the city in wood covered with silver, the dear "small country" appears to you taken up again, with impeccable as well as significant, drastic "simplification", closed in the circular ring represented by the oldest city with its five main ports.

Un fulmine l'abbatteva nel 1620; rivedendo oggi quell'immagine splendente, consegnataci in dipinti del Maganza e del Maffei, o liberantesi, in più ravvicinata testimonianza, sul "modello" della città, consacrato nel 1577–1578 al santuario di Monte Berico, e riandando a ciò che l'architetto aveva rappresentato nelle intenzioni e nelle speranze dei promotori della riforma della facies civica On the top of his lantern, in 1574, the effigy of an angel with extended wings, in wood covered in gilded copper, will be placed in place to replace the previous lifting cross: Palladio himself was directly interested in the work of the installation.

It was struck by lightning in 1620; seeing again today that shining image, given to us in paintings by Maganza and Maffei, or liberantesi, in closer testimony, on the "model" of the city, consecrated in 1577–1578 to the sanctuary of Monte Berico, and going back to what the architect had represented in the intentions and hopes of the promoters of the reform of the civic facies