Il Sodoma
Il Sodoma | |
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Self-portrait, detail of fresco St Benedict repairs a Broken Colander through Prayer, Chiostro Grande, Abbazia territoriale di Monte Oliveto Maggiore | |
| Born | Giovanni Antonio Bazzi 1477 |
| Died | 14 February 1549 (aged 71–72) |
| Education | Martino Spanzotti, Gerolamo Giovenone |
| Movement | High Renaissance Sienese School |
| Patrons | Agostino Chigi, Pope Julius II, Pope Leo X |
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.