Sebastiano del Piombo

Venetian-born and trained, perhaps by Giorgione, Sebastiano (about 1485 - 1547) moved in 1511 to Rome, where he became a major portraitist and painter of religious subjects. He was a protégé of Michelangelo, who significantly influenced his art. His late style could be dark and sombre, and his figures have an almost clumsy force. Sebastiano's early Venetian works resembl...