Sodoma

_N.B._--Since this work has been written some important evidence has been discovered in Siena, proving that Pacchiarotto painted the figure of San Bernardino, hitherto ascribed...

Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, or Sodoma, as he is more commonly called, is one of the most interesting of that large group of lesser-known artists, who helped to make the Renaissance...

We now come to that series of frescoes in the surrounding country, in which, as we have already noticed, Sodoma’s artistic personality seems to have first fully asserted itself....

It is certain that Sodoma left Monte Oliveto more fully in possession of his faculties as an artist than when he went there. He had left the mediæval manner behind him, and migh...

Milanesi believes that it was soon after his second Roman visit that Sodoma went first to stay at Piombino, a little seaport town at the extreme end of the promontory of Populon...

After the commencement of the San Bernardino frescoes Sodoma disappeared from Tuscany, and an amount of uncertainty has gathered round his doings during the next seven years. Th...

Sodoma had worked hitherto for private patrons, or at best for ecclesiastical communities. Of municipal commissions he had received none as yet, and it was only in 1529 that the...

In addition to the long list of frescoes and paintings which we have already considered and about which we have been able to obtain contemporary information, there still remains...