Biography

Italian sculptor, son of Leone Leoni. He moved to Spain in about 1556 to gave the finishing touches to his fathers sculptures for the emperor. The most important was a group of 27 bronze statues (finished 1582) for the high altar of the Escorial. Pompeo executed several tombs in Spain on his own account, and was, like his father, a goldsmith and medallist. Again like his father, he had a dangerous brush with authority, being briefly imprisoned by the inquisition.