Colleoni built a splendid monument of his puissance in Bergamo: Capella Colleoni, originally the sacristy of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore. Colleoni took and held the Capella by force when the Consiglio della Misericordia refused to give the building to Colleoni for his half-proud, half-pious purpose. The construction, using the most expensive materials, cost him fifty-thousand gold florins. An equestrian sculpture of gilt wood surmounts his monument inside the chapel. It was the work of two German masters, called Sisto figlio di Enrico Syri da Norimberga and Leonardo Tedesco (1475). The chapel itself is a jewel of Lombard Renaissance architecture.
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