Sebastiano del Piombo

Copy of a self portrait


Born
Sebastiano Luciani
c. 1485
Venice, Italy

Died
21 June 1547
Rome, Italy

Nationality
Italian

Education
Giovanni Bellini

Known for
Painting

Notable work
Saint John Chrysostom
Pietà
Portrait of Clement VII

Movement
High Renaissance
Mannerism

Sebastiano del Piombo belongs to the painting school of his native city, Venice, but was active for a large portion of his career in Rome. At first a musician, chiefly a soloist on the lute, he was in great request among the Venetian nobility. He soon showed a turn for painting, and became a pupil of Giovanni Bellini and afterwards of Giorgione, whose influence is apparent in his works. Some of Sebastiano's works were indeed confused with Giorgione's,[1] i.e. the Salomè of 1510.

His first painting of note was done for the church of San Giovanni Crisostomo, Venice, and is so closely modeled on the style of Giorgione that in its author's time it often passed for the work of that master.

It represents Saint John Chrysostom reading aloud at a desk, a grand Magdalene in front, and two other female and three male saints.[

The Raising of Lazarus (1517-1519)

Portrait of "Dorotea"

Portrait of a Ladya by Sebastiano del Piombo

Detail of fresco in San Pietro in Montorio.

Andrea Doria, 1520

"Die Heilige Familie"

Ritratto d'uomo

Pietà - Viterbo, Museo Civico

Martirio di sant'Agata, 1520, Firenze, Palazzo Pitti

Cristoforo Colombo, 1519, New York, Metropolitan

Sagrada Familia con Santa Catalina, San Sebastián y un donante, hacia 1507-1508, museo del Louvre

Los tres filósofos de Giorgione, concluida por Sebastiano del Piombo. Museo de Historia del Arte de Viena.