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Updated: June 28, 2025
Rather let them moulder to dust on the ruin from which they were torn, shining through the blue veil of the Grecian atmosphere, from the summit of the Acropolis! The National Gallery, on Trafalgar Square, is open four days in the week, to the public. The "Raising of Lazarus," by Sebastian del Piombo, is considered the gem of the collection, but my unschooled eyes could not view it as such.
But I myself bound him to his bed before setting fire to the house. I have left the island with my wife and child without being able to discover whether, indeed, Luigi Porta is alive." Bonaparte looked with curiosity at Bartolomeo, but without surprise. "How many were there?" asked Lucien. "Seven," replied Piombo. "All of them were your persecutors in the olden times."
After he had been made Friar of the Piombo, he executed for the Patriarch of Aquileia, with great labour, Christ bearing the Cross, a half-length figure painted on stone a work which was much extolled, particularly for the head and the hands, parts in which Sebastiano was truly most excellent.
Vasari also relates that Sebastiano del Piombo, acting on his own responsibility, prepared this wall with a ground for oil-colours, hoping to be employed by Michelangelo, but that the latter had it removed, preferring the orthodox method of fresco-painting.
"How can he know you enough to love you?" "Father," said Ginevra, with a gesture of impatience, "whether he loves me or not, if I love him " "You love him?" cried Piombo. Ginevra bent her head softly. "You love him more than you love us?" "The two feelings cannot be compared," she replied. "Is one stronger than the other?" "I think it is," said Ginevra.
The meeting took place at Ferrara, and our painter then accompanied the papal court to Busseto, and subsequently proceeded to Bologna. Aretino's correspondence proves that Titian must at that time have painted the Pope, and that he must also have refused the sovereign pontiff's offer of the Piombo, which was then still, as it had been for years past, in the possession of Sebastiano Luciani.
The first was a painting by Sebastian del Piombo, the second a Fra Bartolommeo della Porta, the third a Hobbema landscape, and the fourth and last a Durer a portrait of a woman. Four diamonds indeed! In the history of art, Sebastian del Piombo is like a shining point in which three schools meet, each bringing its pre-eminent qualities.
In the meantime Fra Mariano Fetti, Friar of the Piombo, died, and Sebastiano, remembering the promises made to him by the above-mentioned Bishop of Vasona, master of the household to His Holiness, asked for the office of the Piombo; whereupon, although Giovanni da Udine, who had also done much in the service of His Holiness "in minoribus," and still continued to serve him, asked for the same office, the Pope, moved by the prayers of the Bishop, and also thinking that the talents of Sebastiano deserved it, ordained that Sebastiano should have the office, but should pay out of it to Giovanni da Udine an allowance of three hundred crowns.
Why did you not take the counts and dukes he presented to you?" "They loved me to order," said the girl. "Besides, they would have made me live with them, and I did not wish to leave you alone." "You don't wish to leave me alone," said Piombo, "and yet you marry! that is leaving me alone. I know you, my daughter; in that case, you would cease to love us.
"But it must be destroyed, at any cost." Bonaparte was silent for a few moments, and Lucien made a sign to Piombo not to speak. The Corsican was swaying his head from right to left in deep disapproval. "Live here, in Paris," resumed the First Consul, addressing Bartolomeo; "we will know nothing of this affair.
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