PIOMBO, Sebastiano del, Ital ian painter: b. Venice, 1485; d. Rome, 21 June 1547. His family name was Luciani. Having renounced music, to which he had early de voted himself, for painting, he studied under Giovanni Bellini and Giorgione, the latter of whom he especially imitated. Something of the fine coloring of Giorgione appears in the figure of Saint Chrysostom writing, in the altar piece of the church of that name at Venice, which is Piombo's earliest fresco. In 1510 he went to Rome and became acquainted with Michelangelo, whose mastery of form he tried to make his own a.id to combine with his own Venetian skill in coloring. He also vied with Raphael, and the so-called 'Fornarinal in the Uffizi and the 'Saint Dorothea' at Berlin were both for a long time attributed to Raphael. When Raphael had painted his
of Saint Agatha' also ranks among the master pieces of the Italian school. His chief merit, however, lay in single figures and portraits. His 'Pietro Aretino' and his