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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 |
Sebastiano del Piombo Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
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
(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.1507-08
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Madonna and Child with Saints and Donors
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
4 works online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Anton Francesco degli Albizzi, 1525
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Vittoria Colonna
Pinacoteca Civica Francesco Podesti, Ancona, Italy (in Italian)
Ritratto di Francesco Arsilli
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
The Head of a Girl
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Villa del Principe, Palazzo di Andrea Doria, Genoa, Italy
Portrait of Andrea Doria
Virtual Uffizi
Portrait of a Woman
Death of Adonis
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
2 works online when last checked
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project
The Daughter of Herodias (National Gallery, London)
Google Art Project
The Raising of Lazarus (National Gallery, London)
Google Art Project
Death of Adonis (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
Sebastiano del Piombo at The Art Renewal Center
Sebastiano del Piombo in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Sebastiano del Piombo at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Highlights from a 2008 exhibition
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
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 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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.
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