Leone Leoni
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Lioni Leoni was an Italian sculptor of international outlook who travelled in Italy, Germany, Austria, France, Spain and the Netherlands. Leoni is regarded as the finest of the Cinquecento medallists.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Museo del Prado
![Leone Leoni. Self-Portrait [reverse], bronze, 1541. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Samuel H. Kress Collection.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Leone_Leoni%2C_Self-Portrait_%28reverse%29%2C_1541%2C_NGA_45097.jpg/500px-Leone_Leoni%2C_Self-Portrait_%28reverse%29%2C_1541%2C_NGA_45097.jpg)
Leone Leoni. Self-Portrait [reverse], bronze, 1541. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Samuel H. Kress Collection.
The Casa degli Omenoni that Leoni designed for himself, engraving from Serviliano's Descrizione di Milano, 1738
Leoni's memorial in Milan Cathedral for Gian Giacomo Medici (died in 1555)
Pompeo Leoni
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Pompei Leoni was an Italian sculptor and medalist who was born in Milan in the early 1530s and died in Madrid in October 1608.
Leone Leoni
…as funerary effigies, as nearly all previous examples had been. Leoni was assisted in the monumental bronzes destined for the Escorial by his son Pompeo Leoni (c.1533–1608), who continued the large bronze-casting foundry after his father's death, in a style that is not securely separated from that of his…
El Greco Portrait of a Sculptor WGA10449
Pompeo Leoni, Medal of Ercole II d'Este, 1554.
Binding of the Codex Atlanticus.