SEBASTIANO DEL PIOMBO

Sebastiano Luciani, known as Sebastiano del Piombo, was born in Venice in 1485 and died in Rome in 1547.

He learned the art from the old Giovanni Bellini, then followed Giorgione.
In his early twenties he became famous so that Vasari says: "spreading the fame of the virtues of Sebastian, Agostino Chigi of Siena, rich merchant, who in Vinegia (= Venice), had many business, tried to take him to Rome. Neither was great difficulty conducting Sebastian in Rome, he went more than willingly”. Arrived then in Rome, Agostino commissioned Sebastiano the lunette of the loggia of Galatea in which Sebastiano painted mythological subjects, which, as in other rooms of the villa, were taken from Ovid's metamorphosis.

A prolific author Sebastiano del Piombo is considered one of the greatest artists of the sixteenth century, his works are exhibited in major museums around the world.

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