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In 1495, Cristoforo Solari was appointed by Lodovico Sforza to replace Antonio Mantegazza (d. 1495) as joint chief architect (with Giovanni Antonio Amadeo) of the façade of the Certosa di Pavia. This work was interrupted in 1497 when Ludovico commissioned Solari to carve the funerary monument to his consort Beatrice d'Este in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. Only the effigies of Beatrice and Lodovico survive (in the Certosa di Pavia) from this work, which Solari never finished, although he seems to have worked on it almost exclusively until Lodovico's fall in 1499.
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