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Once freed from the galleys, he "continued his alternation of criminal violence and exquisite workmanship" moving to Milan to take up an
Imperial appointment as master of the mint there, from 20 February 1542, at 150 ducats a year and the gift of a house in the Moroni district of Milan. Leoni's house
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minister, Leone cast life-sized half-figures in richly framed ovals, of
Charles, Philip and the Cardinal, described by Vasari. Granvelle would often correspond with Leoni, whom he may have known from his youth in as a student in Padua, about Habsburg commissions (which usually overran their promised
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and Leoni. Leoni was the guest of
Charles in Brussels in 1549, and the first of the portraits from life dates from this time; however, Leoni had made a portrait medallion of Charles in 1536. In Brussels the Emperor installed Leoni in an apartment below his own and delighted in his company, spending
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format for a portrait bust; mounted on a pedestal, and truncated at mid-chest, or the bottom of the stomach (often defined by an armoured breast-plate), sweeping up at the sides to just below the shoulders. He also made life-size full-length portrait bronzes, like that of
Charles V, which were not
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quella poi con due gusci sottilissimi vestì d'una molto gentile armatura, che se gli lieva e veste facilmente, e con tanta grazia che chi la vede vestita non s'accorge e non può quasi credere ch'ella sia ignuda, e quando è nuda niuno crederebbe agevolmente ch'ella potesse così bene armarsi già
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and probably left some finished work in wax (in which many of his sculptures were modelled), as well as designing coins. He mainly produced portraits, and was repeatedly used by the
Spanish, and also the Austrian, Habsburgs.
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by his Grand Duke, as he bitterly complained, for fear the
Habsburgs would ensnare him. Among other later violent incidents, he was supposed to have attempted to murder Titian's son, who was staying with him in Milan.
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says. His earliest documentation finds him at Venice after 1533, with his wife and infant son, living under the protection of his
Aretine compatriot (and possible kinsman),
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Leoni's name remained among the few recognizable landmarks in 16th century sculpture and consequently attracted many attributions during the nineteenth century.
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164:. Leoni then attacked Pellegrino and was condemned to lose his right hand, a sentence commuted after the intercession of powerful friends to slavery in the
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became pope, he showed
Michael Angelo much favour, and employed him in many works, particularly in making the design of a monument for the
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Omenoni: The Artist and the Public".
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patronage. On his return from Spain, where he executed the series of royal portraits, he brought a purse of 2000
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hours watching him at work, Vasari recalled. He knighted Leoni on 2 November 1549.
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that Leoni designed for himself, engraving from Serviliano's
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and five medals of Andrea Doria as tokens of his gratitude.
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Standing portrait of Isabella of Portugal (Museo del Prado);
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