Leone Leoni

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Bronze bust of Emperor Charles V , Museo del Prado in Madrid
Undated medal (1563) by Leone Leoni on Michelangelo's 88th birthday (obverse).
The back of Michelangelo's 88th birthday medal.

Leone Leoni (* around 1509 in Menaggio ; † July 22, 1590 in Milan ) was an Italian sculptor , goldsmith and medalist of the Renaissance .

Life

Leoni was born in Arezzo and led an eventful life that led him to many Italian cities and as a sculptor to Emperor Charles V also to Germany , Spain and the Netherlands . Leoni eventually settled in Milan, where he designed coins and medals for Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle and Michelangelo . In 1556 he designed a silver scudo with the portrait of Philip II as Duke of Milan. The building erected by Leoni in the 1570s, the so-called "House of Omenoni" (Italian: " Casa degli Omenoni ") in Via degli Omenoni, in which he maintained his workshop, still exists today.

“ Casa degli Omenoni ” in Via degli Omenoni, Milan

Leoni's son, Pompeo Leoni (1533–1608), was also a sculptor. He went to Spain , where he completed the bronze sculptures that his father had designed for the main chapel in the Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial . Pompeo Leoni owned Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notes and rearranged them.

literature

  • Éduard Plon: Les maitres italiens au service de la maison d'Autriche, Leone Leoni scuplpteur de Charles V et Pompeo Leoni sculpteur de Philippe II. 1887.
  • Filippo II, Re di Spagna, Duca di Milano. Banca Commerciala Italiana, Milan 1993.

Web links

Commons : Leone Leoni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leoni, Leone in: L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Volume III, London 1907, p. 398 ff., English.


personal data
SURNAME Leoni, Leone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor, goldsmith and medalist of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH 1509
PLACE OF BIRTH Arezzo
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1590
Place of death Milan