Who is Sebastiano del Piombo?

Sebastiano del Piombo (Italian: [sebaˈstjaːno del ˈpjombo]; c. 1485 – 21 June 1547) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and before Mannerist periods well-known as the forlorn major artiste of the times to append the colouring of the Venetian learned in which he was trained in the flavor of the monumental forms of the Roman school. He belongs both to the painting literary of his indigenous city, Venice, where he made significant contributions past he left for Rome in 1511, and that of Rome, where he stayed for the rest of his life, and whose style he sufficiently adopted.

Born Sebastiano Luciani, after coming to Rome he became known as Sebastiano Veneziano or Viniziano (“Sebastian the Venetian”), until in 1531 he became the Keeper of the Seal to the Papacy, and hence got the nickname del Piombo (“of the Lead”) thereafter, from his supplementary job title of piombatore. Friends like Michelangelo and Ariosto called him Fra Bastiano (“Brother Bastian”).

Never a completely disciplined or productive painter, his artistic productivity fell still further after becoming piombatore, which operational him to attend on the pope most days, to travel when him and to accept holy orders as a friar, despite having a wife and two children. He now painted mostly portraits, and relatively few works of his survive compared to his good contemporaries in Rome. This limited his involvement following the Mannerist style of his well ahead years.

Having achieved success as a lutenist in Venice in imitation of young, he turned to painting and trained as soon as Giovanni Bellini and Giorgione. When he first went to Rome he worked next to Raphael and subsequently became one of the few painters to get on well with Michelangelo, who tried to publicize his career by encouraging him to compete for commissions adjacent to Raphael. He painted portraits and religious subjects in oils, and past he was usual avoided the large fresco schemes that took up in view of that much of the epoch of Raphael and Michelangelo. His earlier career in both Venice and Rome was somewhat overshadowed by the presence of comprehensibly greater painters in the thesame city, but after the death of Raphael in 1520 he became Rome’s leading painter. His influence upon other artists was limited by his want of prominent pupils, and relatively Tiny dissemination of his works in print copies.