In the history of art, Il Sodoma is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Il Sodoma as Italian Renaissance painter (1477-1549).
Il Sodoma was born at Vercelli in 1477.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter.
His recorded movement is renaissance and sienese school.
Among his best-known works are Terrestrial Venus with Eros and Celestial Venus with Anteros and Two Cupids, Man of Sorrows and The wedding of Alexander the Great and Roxane. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
Il Sodoma died in 1549, aged 72. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Terrestrial Venus with Eros and Celestial Venus with Anteros and Two Cupids
- Notable work: Man of Sorrows
- Notable work: The wedding of Alexander the Great and Roxane
- Notable work: Saints Victor and Ansanus
- Movement: Renaissance and Sienese school
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