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| Sebastiano del Piombo art links |
Sebastiano's anatomical constructions leave a good deal to be desired. It is not hard to see why a few years later we find him writing letters to Michelangelo begging for drawings of arms, legs, and torsos.
| | - Frederick Hartt, History of Italian Renaissance Art |
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Madonna and Child
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Portrait of Cardinal Reginald Pole, 1540s
The Lamentation, 1516
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Cartoon of the Head of Saint James, 1500
Pope Clement VII, 1531
Kress Foundation Collection NEW!
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
Anton Francesco degli Albizzi, 1525
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Sebastiano del Piombo at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Holy Family with St. Catherine, St. Sebastian and a Donor, ca.1507
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW!
Sebastiano del Piombo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Madonna and Child with Saints and Donors
Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus, 1519
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Sebastiano del Piombo at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Sebastiano del Piombo
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Sebastiano del Piombo at the Prado Museum, Madrid
Christ carrying the Cross, 1532-35
Sebastiano del Piombo at the Prado Museum, Madrid
Jesus carrying the Cross, ca.1516
Sebastiano del Piombo at the Prado Museum, Madrid
Jesus descends into Limbo, 1516
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
The Holy Family with Pope Clement VII, ca.1530
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Portrait of a Man, ca.1516
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Head of a Woman
Museo Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (in Italian) NEW!
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Vittoria Colonna
Pinacoteca Civica Francesco Podesti, Ancona, Italy (in Italian)
Ritratto di Francesco Arsilli
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
The Head of a Girl
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
- to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version"
- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
- you can zoom in via the mouse scroll wheel, then click the image and drag it around
Virtual Uffizi
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Pope Clement VII in Conference with the Emperor Charles V and Others, 1530
Madonna and Child, 1511-20
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
Pictures from Image Archives:
Sebastiano del Piombo in the Art Renewal Center
Sebastiano del Piombo at CGFA
Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Highlights from a 2008 exhibition
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Sebastiano del Piombo 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Biography of the artist. Detailed, but Vasari's anecdotes are sometimes inaccurate.
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
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