The collections of the Civic Museum document the Carraresi period and include important objects that evoke memories of the family itself. The Church of St. Augustine was dear to leaders of the Carraresi, and they chose it for the family mausoleum: the collection includes two pilasters in Istrian marble, depicting St. Dominic and St. Augustine, that flanked the door jambs at the church entrance. Also notable are the panels of the Hierarchy of Angels, by Guariento di Arpo (active at Padua between 1338 and 1368), court painter of the signori. The Angels were completed for the private chapel of the Carraresi royal house, in Via Accademia. They provided a link between the decorative wall frescos narrating bible scenes and the wood ceiling, painted in blue, symbolising the role of angels as intermediaries between the earth and the heavens. The cycle of panel paintings was dismounted during 18th century renovations and then left in a hall until the Civic Museum acquired them, in 1902. The lives of the Carraresi are also suggested thanks to a beautiful marble shield with portrait of Bishop Stefano da Carrara, originally from the Duomo, attributed to inaldino di Francia. The elegant gothic script surrounding the portrait recounts that Stefano, elected bishop in 1402, was the illegitimate son of Francesco Novello. Novello, in open war with the Venetians, sent Stefano to Florence for protection in 1405. There he escaped the death that awaited his father and brothers, in Venice, after the defeat of Padua. There is also a small but superb portrait of Francesco the Elder, a Carraresi signore, attributable to an artist of the mid-1400s, perhaps from France.