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This was likely to have been his last work, as he died in that year at the age of fifty-nine, but this work perished in the fire of that church in 1666. Mention will be made later on concerning the labours of this master at Rome and other places ; in addition to his work at Siena we have now to notice the work and life of Sodoma, another foreign painter, who assisted more than any other in the transformation of Sienese painting during the earlier half of the sixteenth century. Giovanni Antonio ...Bazza, called Sodoma (1477-1549), was also known under the name of d'Jacobi Tisioni, as he was in some way re- lated to the house of Tisoni of Vercelli in Pied- mont, though his father, who was a shoemaker, was named Baz2d. Sodoma was bom at Ver- celli, and was a pupil of a Piedmontese painter, named Spanzotti, but in his early Ufe he came under the strong influence of Leonardo da Vinci in Milan. He came to Siena in the year 1501, invited and patronized by the Spannochi family of that city. Sodoma brought the Leonardesque Digitized by Google 180 HISTORY AND METHODS OF style and maimer of painting to Siena, and became a successful innovator and leader among the Sienese.
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