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Routledge
Sebastiano del Piombo (c.1485-1547) was a close associate and rival of the central artistic figures of the High Renaissance, notably Michelangelo and Raphael. After the death of Raphael and the departure of Michelangelo from Rome, Sebastiano became the dominant artistic personality in the city. Despite being one of most significant artistic figures of the period, he remains the last artist of... Read more
List of Figures viii
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction: Sebastiano del Piombo as a historical construct 1
2 Rome: Coda Mundi 15
3 Filippo Sergardi: between Siena and the Empire 35
4 The dual loyalties of the Bishop of Vaison 63
5 Don Jerónimo de Vich: ambassador and art patron 95
6 Don Gonzalo Diez de Lerma: between Burgos and Rome 131
7 Francesco de los Cobos and Ferrante Gonzaga: the paradigm
of Spain and Italy 164
Conclusion 193
Bibliography 201
Index 241
Biography
Piers Baker-Bates is a Research Associate in Art History at the Open University, UK. He is co-editor of The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy (2015).
