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During the 1570s Pompeo received important commissions for marble sepulchral effigies: the kneeling figure of Joanna of Austria (1574) for her tomb in the convent of Las Descalzas Reales, Madrid; the sensitive and naturalistic portrait of the Inquisitor General, Cardinal Diego de Espinosa (1577), in the church of Martín Muñoz de las Posadas, Segovia; and the elaborate Italianate tomb of Fernando de Valdés (1576) at the collegiate church, Salas.
Diego de Espinosa y Arévalo (died 1572) was President of the Royal Supreme Council of Castile, Inquisitor General and Bishop of Sigüenza. The praying figure on his tomb, carved in marble, is by Pompeo Leoni.
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