Marco Bigio, also known as ''Giorgio da Siena'') (active 1523 to 1550) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Siena.

Biography

Little is known about the life of the painter. He is putatively a pupil of

Sodoma Il Sodoma (1477 – 14 February 1549) was the name given to the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi. Il Sodoma painted in a manner that superimposed the High Renaissance style of early 16th-century Rome onto the traditions of ...

, and an attributed work in the Palazzo Barberini Gallery, has been attributed to one or both of these artists. Filippo Boni indicates that his style resembles that of Antonio Maria Lari (Il Tozzo).Biografia degli artisti: volume unico
by Filippo De Boni, page 105. Among the works attributed to Bigio are: *''Holy Family with young St John the Baptist'' (1540), 49 × 33 cm, *''The Three Parcae'' of ''Fates'' (1540–1550), 200 × 212, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini, Rome *''Three Ages of Woman'' *''Madonna and Child and Magdalen'', 80 cm, *''Magdalen'', 133,5 × 97 cm, *''Magdalen in prayer with a seascape'', 112 × 93,5 cm, *''Madonna and Child, St John and Angels'', tempera, 66 × 66 cm.

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Date of birth unknown Date of death unknown 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Siena Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub