Friday, September 13, 2019

Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, called Il Sodoma (1477-1549) - I

Sodoma
Allegory of Love
(Terrestrial Venus with Eros, Celestial Venus with Anteros and Cupids)
ca. 1508
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Sodoma
Ecce Homo
ca. 1510
oil on panel
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Sodoma after Leonardo da Vinci
Leda and the Swan
ca. 1510-15
oil on panel
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Sodoma
Holy Family
ca. 1510-1513
oil on panel
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Sodoma
Stigmatization of St Catherine of Siena
ca. 1510
oil on panel
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Sodoma
Road to Calvary
ca. 1510
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Sodoma
Madonna and Child enthroned
with St Jerome, St Catherine of Alexandria, St Lucy and St John the Evangelist

1513
oil on panel
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

"The rise to leadership of the Roman school in the first two decades of the sixteenth century had caused two at least of the chief Sienese painters of that time, Peruzzi and Sodoma, to attach themselves to it, the former wholly, the latter partly.  . . .  Sodoma had been earlier and more effectively Romanized than Beccafumi.  The style he had matured in Rome, however, was an imposition of Raphaelism on Sodoma's provincial origins – Sienese, distantly Lombard, and tangentially Florentine – rather than a true assimilation of it.  After 1520, when Sodoma's practice became almost wholly Sienese, his acquired Romanism waned, and the personal and provincial bases of his art emerged more strongly.  His works of the twenties are still related to his Romanized models, but with only wavering consistency; they refer increasingly to local and to Tuscan models, and their qualities of resemblance to classicism diminish."

– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)

Sodoma
St George and the Dragon
ca. 1518
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Sodoma
Marriage of Alexander and Roxana
1517
fresco
Villa Farnesina, Rome

Sodoma
Marriage of Alexander and Roxana (detail)
1517
fresco
Villa Farnesina, Rome

Sodoma
Women of the family of Darius supplicating Alexander
1517
fresco
Villa Farnesina, Rome

Sodoma
Madonna and Child
ca. 1526-27
oil on panel
Palazzo Chigi-Zondadari, San Quirico d'Orcia

Sodoma
St John the Baptist
ca. 1526-27
oil on panel
Palazzo Chigi-Zondadari, San Quirico d'Orcia

Sodoma
Dead Christ
ca. 1526-27
oil on panel
Palazzo Chigi-Zondadari, San Quirico d'Orcia