Giovanni Antonio Bazzi
Known as Il Sodoma

A journy into the Renaissance

Curated by
Serena D’Italia, Luca Mana, Vittorio Natale

Scientific Committee
Roberto Bartalini, Francesco Frangi, Edoardo Villata

MUSEO DI ARTI DECORATIVE ACCORSI-OMETTO, TORINO
31 March – 6 September 2026

Fondazione Accorsi-Ometto is pleased to present a major exhibition dedicated to Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, known as “Il Sodoma,” almost eighty years after his last major retrospective, held in 1950 in Vercelli and Siena.

Curated by Serena D’Italia, Luca Mana, and Vittorio Natale, with the advisory committee of Roberto Bartalini, Francesco Frangi, and Edoardo Villata, the exhibition presents the painter’s early works for the first time. It showcases a frenzied elaboration of the artist’s diverse experiences, which allowed him to develop a highly personal style.

From the workshop of Giovanni Martino Spanzotti to the fresco cycles in Sant’Anna in Camprena (1503-1504) and the cloister of Monteoliveto (1505-1508), near Siena, to his extraordinary visits to Rome, supported by the patronage of Agostino Chigi, Sodoma embarked on a journey that the exhibition attempts to reconstruct ideally.

The over fifty works on display, some of which unknown or never exhibited before, come from prestigious private collections and important public institutions