style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">In around 1492, Lodovico Sforza chose the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan as a family mausoleum. He had ruled the city for more than a decade, having acquired power thanks to a tenuous hereditary claim bolstered by violence. Now he wished to seal his reputation for posterity with a sumptuous final resting place.