 In the Quattrocento , it was traditional for condottieri like Hawkwood to be buried in major public churches , even when their careers had produced mixed results for the city @-@ state in question . The genre of the equestrian statue was revived during the Quattrocento for the purpose of commemorating condottieri ; Donatello 's Equestrian Statue of <unk> ( c . 1447 – 1453 ) in Padua is the first surviving bronze equestrian statue since Ancient Rome . <unk> <unk> was interred at San Francesco in Venice ; Jacopo de ' Cavalli at SS . Giovanni e Paolo in Rome ; Paolo Savelli at Basilica dei <unk> in Venice , along with a wooden equestrian statue on a marble sarcophagus , which — along with the bronze horses on the façade of St. Mark — may have inspired Uccello 's Hawkwood ; and Konrad <unk> at a church in Pisa . When such burials were not possible , frescoes were an acceptable substitute : <unk> da <unk> was painted on horseback by Simone Martini in Palazzo <unk> in Siena in 1328 ; Pietro Farnese was depicted in a papier @-@ mâché equestrian monument atop a sarcophagus in the Florence Cathedral in 1363 . 
