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Il Sodoma

1477 - 1549

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Il Sodoma (1477 – 14 February 1549) was the name given to the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi. Il Sodoma painted in a manner that superimposed the High Renaissance style of early 16th-century Rome onto the traditions of the provincial Sienese school; he spent the bulk of his professional life in Siena, with two periods in Rome. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Il Sodoma is the 320th most popular painter (down from 242nd in 2019), the 1,032nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 805th in 2019) and the 87th most popular Italian Painter.

Il Sodoma was most famous for his paintings of nudes.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Il Sodoma ranks 320 out of 2,023. Before him are Daniele da Volterra, Pierre Mignard, Carl Spitzweg, Shitao, Anton Mauve, and Giacomo Balla. After him are Vasily Vereshchagin, Federico Barocci, Max Beckmann, Taddeo Gaddi, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and Max Liebermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1477, Il Sodoma ranks 3. Before him are Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and Anne of Brittany. After him are John III of Navarre, Stephen VIII Báthory, Juan de Homedes, Johannes Schöner, Malik Muhammad Jayasi, Johannes Aventinus, Jacopo Sadoleto, and Lambert Simnel. Among people deceased in 1549, Il Sodoma ranks 4. Before him are Pope Paul III, Marguerite de Navarre, and Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley. After him are Giampietrino, Christine of Saxony, Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg, Aelbrecht Bouts, Elia Levita, and Matsudaira Hirotada.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Il Sodoma ranks 1,032 out of 5,161. Before him are Barbara Strozzi (1619), Ibycus (-600), Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484), Andrea Gabrieli (1533), Charles Martel of Anjou (1271), and Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1634). After him are Benedetto Marcello (1686), Dino De Laurentiis (1919), Andrea Camilleri (1925), Federico Barocci (1535), Luigi Cadorna (1850), and Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma (1870).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Il Sodoma ranks 87. Before him are Masolino da Panicale (1383), Giorgio Morandi (1890), Ludovico Carracci (1555), Lorenzo Costa (1460), Daniele da Volterra (1509), and Giacomo Balla (1871). After him are Federico Barocci (1535), Taddeo Gaddi (1290), Niccolò dell'Abbate (1512), Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691), Carlo Crivelli (1430), and Bernardino Luini (1475).

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