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Volume One: 14th - 16th century</u>, London, 1979, cat. 184, p. 82-84, illus.\n\nLEONI, LEONE (1509 – 1590)\r\n\r\n184\r\nDesign (elevation) for the tomb of the <i>condottiere</i> Giovanni Jacopo de’ Medici, Marquis of Marignan, in Milan cathedral \r\nPen and ink and coloured wash\r\n13 7/8 x 10 (351 x 254)\t\t6660 and 6663\r\nPROVENANCE Charles Jourdeuil (sale, Sotheby, 12 -13 August 1868, bought by the Museum)\n\nBefore it came to the Museum, the drawing had been cut in half, and the two parts were mounted on separate sheets of paper. The subject has lately been indentified and the two halves of the drawing have been re-united.\n\r\nThe Marquis of Marignan (or Melegrano) died in 1555, and his brother Pope Pius IV commissioned Leoni to make a tomb for him. The work was completed by 1564. The monument today is without a sarcophagus and has been so for such a long time that it is a question whether it ever had one. This drawing shows that it had, or at any rate was intended to have one. A sarcophagus is specified in the contract between the sculptor and the Pope (transcribed in C. Casati, <i>Ricerche intorno a Leone Leoni,</i> Milan, 1884). It was to be fitted with bronze feet and to be carved in the same kind of mottled red marble as the two columns which the Pope caused to be removed from his place at Milan for the adornment of his brother's tomb. The sarcophagus shown in the drawing answers exactly to this description, having bronze feet and being of the same reddish marble as the two inner columns, which are different from the other four. Luca Beltrami (in an article on the tomb in <i>Rassegna d'Arte</i>, 4, 1904, pp. 1-4) suggests that the sarcophagus was suppressed in obedience to a series of decrees <i>De Sepulturis</i> promulagted by the Council of Trent; and in support of this theory he quotes a passage from Giussano's Life of S. Carlo Borromeo (Rome, 1610, p. 91), where it is stated that the Saint, who was Bishop of Milan and the nephew of Pius IV and of the Marquis of Marignano, caused a number of tombs in Milan Cathedral to be removed, among them 'l'arca, o sia deposito di bronzo, del Marchese di Melegnano, suo Zio...e cio per dar buon esempio in questa parte'.\n\r\nIt is the drawing an original design or a copy after the finished monument? If Beltrami is right in thinking that the sarcophagus was suppressed before it was ever placed in position, then the drawing is probably a design, since it shows the sarcophagus. This conclusion is confirmed by a closer examination of the drawing. It is no sketch, but an accurate drawing to scale, and yet it differs from the monument as executed in certain points, notably in the tratment of the mouldings rounf the pedestal. In the drawing the mouldings are very elaborate, whereas in the actual monument they are relatively simple. This discrepancy is more likely to occur in an original drawing than a copy, for it is more probable that a sculptor or his workmen should simplify his design while carrying it out than that a copyist should needlessly complicate this task.\n\r\nThe drawing, therefore, is probably a design by Leoni or one of his assistants for the architecture of the tomb. 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