the costume of a Roman senator; behind the bishops, a great crowd; and on steps of altar, guards and mace-bearers in Italian costume of 16th century. Typical of the dogma that the Pope is not amenable to any earthly tribunal. Painted in 1517, probably by pupils after Raphael's designs. Engraved by Fr. Aquila; Aloisius Fabri.—Vasari, ed. Mil., vi. 361; Passavant, ii. 156; Müntz, 428.
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Pope Leo X., Raphael, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
LEO X., Pope, portrait, Raphael, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; wood, H. 5 ft. × 3 ft. 11 in. The Pope, dressed in a loose white robe with fur-trimmed sleeves and red velvet collar and cap, sits at a table on which are an illuminated breviary and a silver bell, holding an eye-glass in his left hand; behind his chair, his two nephews standing, at right, Cardinal Giulio de' Medici (Clement VII.), at left, Cardinal Luigi de' Rossi, his secretary. A masterpiece of portraiture. Painted about 1517-19; became the property of Ottaviano de' Medici; was seen in Florence by Federigo II., Duke of Mantua, who, coveting it, asked Clement VII. for it. The Pope ordered it sent to Mantua, but Ottaviano substituted a copy by Andrea del Sarto (1525). This copy, which deceived even Giulio Romano, who had taken part in the execution of the original, is now in the Naples Museum, where it passes as the original. The Pitti picture was carried to Paris in 1797; returned in 1815. Engraved by Samuel Jesi, Marri, F. Morel, F. Lignon, Chataignier, and Landon.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 352; v. 41; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 403, 466; Gal. du Pal. Pitti, iv. Pl. 91; Filhol, ii. Pl. 107; Springer, 254; Musée royal, i.; Landon, Musée, xiv. Pl. 29; Passavant, ii. 269; Perkins, 143.
LEON, painter, known only as the painter
of a Sappho.—Pliny, xxxv. 40 [141].
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LEON Y ESCOSURA, IGNACIO, born
at Orviedo, Spain; contemporary.
Genre
painter, pupil in Paris
of Gérôme; paints
interiors and garden
scenes with historical
persons of 17th or 18th
centuries. Orders of
Isabella the Catholic,
of Charles III. of Spain,
and Christ of Portugal.
Works: The Breakfast, Walk in Aranjuez,
Philip IV. presenting Rubens to Velasquez
(1867); Murillo with the Capuchins, Gallery
of Philip IV. in the Prado (1868); Studio of
Velasquez, Lucrezia Borgia in Venice (1869);
The Implacable Enemies, Artist's Friends in
Time of Louis XIII. (1870); Convalescent
Prince (1872), Morgan sale, New York,
1886; Reception of an Ambassador; Unexpected
Visit; Going to the Audience; Fight
in Rue de Rivoli, Paris; Charles V. at Titian's
(1882); End of the Game (1884), Morgan
sale, New York, 1886. Works in United
States: Arriving at the Château, William
Astor, New York; The Heir, W. H. Vanderbilt,
ib.; Gallants playing Cards, M. Graham,
ib.; Convalescent Prince, T. R. Butler,
ib.; Castle of Blois, Visit, R. L. Stuart,
