Sodoma
(1477–1549) Italian Renaissance painter (1477-1549)
Sodoma (Italy, 1477–1549) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Sodoma belongs to the chapter ‘The Renaissance’ in this site’s history of art.
Sodoma was born in Vercelli and died in Siena. Wikidata associates Sodoma with Renaissance and Sienese school.
The best-known works include ‘Terrestrial Venus with Eros and Celestial Venus with Anteros and Two Cupids’, ‘Man of Sorrows’, ‘The wedding of Alexander the Great and Roxane’, and ‘Saints Victor and Ansanus’. The works belong mainly to the genre landscape painting. The catalogue has 42 works by Sodoma with free images. The dated works span the years 1477–1550. Works by Sodoma are held by several collections, among them Monte Oliveto Maggiore, National Gallery, Museet för sköna konster, Budapest, and Villa Farnesina.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Cesare Cesariano, Gaudenzio Ferrari, Sebastiano Serlio, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Galeazzo Campi.