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 |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Education | Martino Spanzotti, Gerolamo Giovenone |
| Movement | High Renaissance Sienese School |
| Patron(s) | 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.[1] 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.
- ^ Also wrongly spelt Razzi. The artist's real surname is uncertain. He is said to have borne the family name of "Sodona" but also the name "Tizzioni". Sodona is the signature on some of his pictures. While Bazzi was corrupted into Razzi, Sodona may have been corrupted into "Sodoma" (Latin and Italian for Sodom, the biblical city).