Leonardo Sormani

Leonardo Sormani (active ca 1550- ca 1590) was an Italian sculptor active in Rome during the Renaissance.

Details of his life are not well known, and authors seemingly refer to him by different names: Giorgio Vasari spoke of a Lionardo Milanese; Giovanni Baglione wrote biographical details of a Lionardo da Serzana or Sarzana;[1] while by the 1670s Giovanni Vincenzo Verzellino and Raffaele Soprani tried to distinguish Vasari's Lionardo from a Leonardo Sormani, originally from Savona.

These names, however, appear to refer to the same sculptor.

[2] Sarzana appears to have been a restorer as well as a sculptor.

Works attributed to Sarzana include:

Statue of seated Pope Pius V found in the Sistine Chapel of Santa Maria Maggiore