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Sebastiano del Piombo

1485 - 1547

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Sebastiano del Piombo (Italian: [sebaˈstjaːno del ˈpjombo]; c. 1485 – 21 June 1547) 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 ("Sebastian the Venetian"), until in 1531 he became the Keeper of the Seal to the Papacy, and so got the nickname del Piombo ("of the Lead") thereafter, from his new job title of piombatore. Friends like Michelangelo and Ariosto called him Fra Bastiano ("Brother Bastian"). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sebastiano del Piombo is the 258th most popular painter (down from 241st in 2019), the 881st most popular biography from Italy (down from 804th in 2019) and the 69th most popular Italian Painter.

Sebastiano del Piombo is most famous for his painting of the Transfiguration, which is now in the National Gallery in London.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Sebastiano del Piombo ranks 258 out of 2,023. Before him are Edwin Landseer, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, Judith Leyster, István Sándorfi, and Hans Holbein the Elder. After him are Antoine-Jean Gros, Joshua Reynolds, Henri Fantin-Latour, Rosalba Carriera, Nicholas Hilliard, and Hendrick Avercamp.

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Among people born in 1485, Sebastiano del Piombo ranks 7. Before him are Hernán Cortés, Catherine of Aragon, Dragut, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Thomas Cromwell, and Pedro de Alvarado. After him are Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg, Clément Janequin, Sayyida al Hurra, Johannes Bugenhagen, Balthasar Hubmaier, and Joos van Cleve. Among people deceased in 1547, Sebastiano del Piombo ranks 7. Before him are Henry VIII of England, Hernán Cortés, Francis I of France, Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, Vittoria Colonna, and Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma. After him are Pietro Bembo, Saint Cajetan, Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia, Hadım Suleiman Pasha, Marie of Luxembourg, Countess of Vendôme, and Johannes Schöner.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Sebastiano del Piombo ranks 881 out of 5,161. Before him are Giulia Farnese (1474), Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351), Phalaris (-700), Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (1782), Epicharmus of Kos (-524), and Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522). After him are Filippo Maria Visconti (1392), Joseph of Cupertino (1603), Paolo Borsellino (1940), Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646), Rosalba Carriera (1673), and Berengar II of Italy (900).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Sebastiano del Piombo ranks 69. Before him are Pisanello (1395), Jacopo Bassano (1510), Bartolommeo Bandinelli (1488), Andrea Pozzo (1642), Lorenzo Lotto (1480), and Baldassare Peruzzi (1481). After him are Rosalba Carriera (1673), Cosimo Rosselli (1439), Guercino (1591), Gentile da Fabriano (1370), Orazio Gentileschi (1563), and François Gérard (1770).

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