page_title: Sebastiano del Piombo
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Sebastiano del Piombo / Selected works
context_page_description: Sebastiano del Piombo was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and early Mannerist periods famous as the only major artist of the period to combine the colouring of the Venetian school in which he was trained with the monumental forms of the Roman school. He belongs both to the painting school of his native city, Venice, where he made significant contributions before he left for Rome in 1511, and that of Rome, where he stayed for the rest of his life, and whose style he thoroughly adopted.
  Born Sebastiano Luciani, after coming to Rome he became known as "Sebastiano Veneziano" or "Viniziano", until in 1531 he became the Keeper of the Seal to the Papacy, and so got the nickname del Piombo thereafter, meaning "of the lead", from his new job title of Piombatore. Friends like Michelangelo and Ariosto called him "Fra Bastiano".
  Never a very disciplined or productive painter, his artistic productivity fell still further after becoming piombatore, which committed him to attend on the pope most days, and travel with him. He also had to take holy orders as a friar, despite having a wife and two children.
context_section_description: Venetian period
  Judgement of Solomon, Kingston Lacy, c. 1505–10, unfinished
  Altarpiece in San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice (c. 1509)
  Organ-shutters of San Bartolomeo, Venice, now Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
  Portrait of a Young Woman as a Wise Virgin (1510)  National Gallery of Art, Washington
  Salome or Judith, 1510, National Gallery, London
  Roman period
  Polyphemus (1511)  – fresco, Villa Farnesina, Rome 
  The Metamorphosis (1511)  – fresco, Villa Farnesina, Rome 
  Christ Carrying the Cross, c. 1513–14, Prado
  Martyrdom of St. Agatha  – Palazzo Pitti, Florence 
  Portrait of a Man (c. 1515)  – Oil on poplar, 115 x 94 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 
  Portrait of a Girl (c. 1515)  – Oil on wood, 52,5 x 42,8 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 
  Portrait of a Warrior (c. 1515)
  Cardinal Bandinello Sauli, His Secretary, and Two Geographers (1516)  National Gallery of Art, Washington
  Christ descending into Limbo  – Prado Museum, Madrid , 1516
  Transfiguration, Flagellation, saints and prophets  San Pietro in Montorio, Rome , 1516–24
  A Prophet Addressed by an Angel (1516–17)  National Gallery of Art, Washington
  Pietà (c. 1517)  – Panel painting, Museo Civico, Viterbo, Italy
  The Raising of Lazarus (1519)  National Gallery, London 
  Hoy Family (c. 1520)  Burgos Cathedral
  Portrait of a Humanist (1520)  National Gallery, Washington D.C.
  Portrait of Andrea Doria (1526)  Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome
  Portrait of Pope Clement VII, (half-length, about 1526), Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
  Portrait of Clement VII (with beard, c. 1531)  – Oil on Slate 105.4 x 87.6 cm Getty Museum, Los Angeles 
  Portrait head of Clement VII on slate, c. 1531, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
  Birth of the Virgin  – Oil on peperino, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, never finished
  Christ Carrying the Cross (1535–1540)  – Oil on slate, 157 x 118 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 
  A Lady as Saint Agatha, after 1530, as signed with "F." for "Frate". Probably 1540s, National Gallery, London
  Visitation, originally Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, unfinished with 3 fragments now Alnwick Castle, 1540s
caption: Portrait of "Dorotea", early years in Rome
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