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5 unusual facts about Sebastiano del Piombo


Casa de Pilatos

The rooms on this floor include major paintings dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, including the Pietà by Sebastiano del Piombo.

Francisco de los Cobos y Molina

One sad note was the loss during a shipwreck of a large assembly of Italian works, including a Pietá by Sebastiano del Piombo and a series of paintings from the City council of Lucca.

George Thomas Doo

His 1864 engraving of the "Raising of Lazarus" by Sebastiano del Piombo took him eight years.

John Julius Angerstein

From the sale in London of the French Orleans Collection he bought The Raising of Lazarus by Sebastiano del Piombo and other works.

Sebastiano del Piombo

In the same method, and also in the same gallery, is the Dead Christ supported by Joseph of Arimathea, with a weeping Magdalene colossal half-length figures.


Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Other highlights include works by the most famous Renaissance and Baroque painters, including Antonello da Messina (Portrait of a Man), Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, Murillo, Rembrandt and Frans Hals and portraits by Domenico Ghirlandaio and Vittore Carpaccio.


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