Sebastiano del Piombo - Vasari Lives of the Artists

Sebastiano del Piombo (Italian painter) - Vasari's Lives of the most excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects ➡️ Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and early Mannerist periods famous as the only major artist of the period to combine the colouring of the Venetian school in which he was trained with the monumental forms of the Roman school. He belongs both to the painting school of his native city, Venice, where he made significant contributions before he left for Rome in 1511, and that of Rome, where he stayed for the rest of his life, and whose style he thoroughly adopted. Having achieved success as a lutenist in Venice when young, he turned to painting and trained with Giovanni Bellini and Giorgione. When Sebastiano del Piombo first went to Rome he worked alongside Raphael and then became one of the few painters to get on well with Michelangelo, who tried to promote his career by encouraging him to compete for commissions against Raphael. He painted portraits and religious subjects in oils, and once he was established avoided the large fresco schemes that took up so much of the time of Raphael and Michelangelo. His earlier career in both Venice and Rome was somewhat overshadowed by the presence of clearly greater painters in the same city, but after the death of Raphael in 1520 he became Rome's leading painter. His influence on other artists was limited by his lack of prominent pupils, and relatively little dissemination of his works in print copies. ✏️ The Lives of Vasari: The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori) is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art" and "the first important book on art history". The title is often abridged to just the Vite or the Lives of Vasari. Vasari published the work in two editions with substantial differences between them; the first edition, two volumes, in 1550 and the second, three volumes, in 1568 (which is the one usually translated and referred to). One important change was the increased attention paid to Venetian art in the second edition, even though Vasari still was, and has ever since been, criticised for an excessive emphasis on the art of his native city of Florence. Here you can listen The Lives of Vasari in audiobook format (English language) and see the most famous paintings and works of these artists! ✅ See more of Vasari's Lives of the Artists:    • Vasari Lives of the Artists   Link to this video:    • Sebastiano del Piombo - Vasari Lives of th...   0:00 Vasari Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari 0:13 Live of Sebastiano del Piombo 0:25 Sebastiano del Piombo artworks and biography 👉 Subscribe to our channel and stay on top of news!:    / @artprojectchannel   #vasarilives #arthistory #artproject