, above the Tomb of Raphael, Pantheon, Rome According to
Vasari, as a young sculptor Lorenzetto completed the tomb of Cardinal
Niccolò Forteguerri, begun by
Andrea Verrocchio in 1477, in San Jacopo at Pistoia. Then in Rome, he made "many works" of which, according to Vasari, "there is no need to make any further record." At the urging of Raphael, Lorenzetto received a commission from
Agostino Chigi to create his tomb in
Santa Maria del Popolo, where Agostino had built a chapel (
Chigi Chapel). According to Vasari, Lorenzetto worked very hard on the project, both to impress Chigi and reflect well on Raphael. With assistance of the young sculptor
Raffaello da Montelupo, and using designs by Raphael (according to Vasari), Lorenzetto created a statue of
Elijah, living by the grace of God in the desert, and a nude
Jonah delivered from the belly of the whale as a symbol of the resurrection from the dead. According to Vasari, the almost simultaneous death of Chigi and Raphael (both within four days of the other in 1520) heralded a decline in Lorenzetto's fortunes. Chigi's heirs left Lorenzetto's statues for the Chigi Chapel sit in Lorenzetto's workshop "for many years" and Lorenzetto "robbed for those reasons of all hope, found for the present that he had thrown away his time and labor." Lorenzetto did, however, find work creating a statue for Raphael's tomb in the
Pantheon, assisted by
Raffaello da Montelupo. Called the
Madonna del Sasso (Madonna of the Rock), it is so named because Mary rests one foot on a boulder. In 1524, Lorenzetto completed the tomb of poet Bernardino Cappella in
Santo Stefano Rotondo (again with
Raffaello da Montelupo). By the time he worked on the tombs of the Medici popes (
Clement VII and
Leo X) in
Santa Maria sopra Minerva (c. 1536) he apparently contented himself with a subordinate role, the primary statuary having been entrusted to
Baccio Bandinelli. ==Work on St. Peter's==