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
Copy of The Violinist, sometimes claimed to be a self portrait
The Judgment of Solomon, 1508–1510, now usually attributed to Sebastiano.
Organ-shutters of San Bartolomeo, Venice, now displayed with outside pair at centre.
Portrait of a Girl in Budapest, c. 1505, one of his earliest paintings.
Venetian painting was a major force in Italian Renaissance painting and beyond. Beginning with the work of Giovanni Bellini and his brother Gentile Bellini and their workshops, the major artists of th
Sebastiano del Piombo
…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…
Titian, Salome with the Head of John the Baptist c. 1515; this religious work also functions as an idealized portrait of a beauty, a Venetian genre developed by Titian, supposedly often using Venetian courtesans as models.
Giovanni Bellini, San Zaccaria Altarpiece, 1505, a late work, San Zaccaria, Venice
Paolo Veneziano, polyptych altarpiece with Coronation of the Virgin, c. 1350
Carlo Crivelli, The Annunciation, with St. Emidius, 1486