In the tomb of Giovanni and Piero de’ Medici, Verrocchio used technical, material, and visual puns and metaphors to present Medici wealth as positive and the means through which the family could access heaven and hope for resurrection. Verrocchio used precious materials (porphyry, bronze, marble, and serpentine), some of which were generally not used on Renaissance tombs, to suggest materially the virtues of the Medici and to connect the tomb with the Medici collection of precious objects and materials in their nearby palace to serve as a kind of portrait of the tomb’s patron (Lorenzo) and those whom the tomb commemorated (Piero and Giovanni). The tomb also highlights Verrocchio’s artisanship by visually punning on artistic techniques to show how brute matter could be transformed into something worthy, a metaphor for how Medici wealth could be positive by being fruitful and productive (through entrepreneurship). Thus the tomb serves as a visual and material defense of Medici wealth, about which the family was perennially anxious.