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When Sodoma Looked to Mantegna: The Lamentation of the Young Man from Piedmont

When Sodoma Looked to Mantegna: The Lamentation of the Young Man from Piedmont

The career of Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, better known as Sodoma (Vercelli, 1477 – Siena, 1549) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating and complex chapters of the High Renaissance, that transitional period between the 15th and 16th centuries, a...
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Spain, Valencia's Museo de Bellas Artes acquires a beautiful Sodom painting

Spain, Valencia's Museo de Bellas Artes acquires a beautiful Sodom painting

Important purchase for the Museo de Bellas Artes in Valencia , which secures an Ecce Homo by Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi; Vercelli, 1477 - Siena, 1549): for the Spanish museum, it is the first painting by the Piedmontese painter by birth but Siene...
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All the sublime and beautiful in art: the Christ at the Sodom Column

All the sublime and beautiful in art: the Christ at the Sodom Column

The story behind Sodom's Christ at the Column , preserved at the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Siena, is curious and singular. It is a detached fresco: in ancient times it stood in the cloister of the convent of San Francesco in Siena, where the artist had...
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Sodom's only work in his hometown: the Holy Family in Vercelli

Sodom's only work in his hometown: the Holy Family in Vercelli

The only work by the Vercelli painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (Vercelli, 1477 - Siena, 1549), known as Sodoma, still present in his hometown is a Holy Family with Angel and St. John preserved at the Borgogna Museum, thanks to the purchase of t...
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