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| Sodoma Holy Family with St John the Baptist ca. 1520-30 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Sodoma St Sebastian 1525 oil on canvas Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Sodoma The Three Fates ca. 1525 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Sodoma Holy Family with St John the Baptist ca. 1525-27 oil on panel Fondazione Musei Senesi |
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| Sodoma Execution of Niccolò di Toldo 1526 fresco Basilica Cateriniana San Domenico, Siena |
"Until about 1530 Sodoma's pictures show diverse tendencies in style, which reflect his response to influences that seem to depend more on accidents of contact than on a principle of choice – e.g. Pinturicchio, the early Sarto, and the recent Michelangelo. But his diversity of manners does not exclude the emergence at the same time of an increasingly apparent strain of personal expression, in which there is a marked sharpening of emotional content and a complication of effects of form. Rhythmic patterns become more precise, complex, and mobile, contrasts of chiaroscuro become more charged, and psychological sensation is both more inward and acute. His feelings and his devices of form come into focus, and Sodoma's style rises on occasion to a febrility and poignance like those in contemporary Florentine Mannerism. His quality of feeling and his vocabulary of form resemble somewhat those of Beccafumi's pictures of the previous decade, and seem in part due to his example. Despite an extended stay in Florence, in 1528, Sodoma seems to have responded little to contemporary events there; his stimulus to a new direction lay rather in the local, Sienese, example. Sodoma's conversion to Mannerism was never more than tentative, yet during the thirties he acquired more of the outward indices of the style – still, it would appear, mostly from Beccafumi: a tendency to elongated forms and an aspiration to an elegance which, as Sodoma expressed it, remains provincial."
– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)
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| Sodoma Holy Family with St Elizabeth and St John the Baptist ca. 1525-30 oil on panel Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Sodoma Madonna and Child with St Peter, St Catherine of Siena and Carthusian Donor ca. 1525-35 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Sodoma Holy Family with St John the Baptist ca. 1530 oil on panel Palazzo Chigi-Zondadari, San Quirico d'Orcia |
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| Sodoma Ecce Homo ca. 1540-49 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Sodoma Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist before 1549 oil on panel Pushkin Museum, Moscow |
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| Sodoma Pietà 1533 oil on panel, transferred to canvas private collection |
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| Sodoma Pietà ca. 1540 oil on panel Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Sodoma Allegory of Celestial Love ca. 1530-45 oil on canvas Palazzo Chigi-Saracini, Siena |
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| Sodoma Birth of the Virgin ca. 1545 oil on panel Palazzo Chigi-Zondadari, San Quirico d'Orcia |