Pope Paul III with a Nephew

Pope Paul III with a Nephew is an unfinished 1534 oil on slate portrait by Sebastiano del Piombo, now in the Galleria nazionale di Parma.

During a restoration it was possible to observe the plate with a reflectographic camera and in correspondence with the face of the grandson, a second version of the same head appeared slightly higher, completed in physiognomic characters.

The painting, made on a thin slate plate, belonged to the Farnese family, as can be seen from the seal and the inventory number on the back.

The attribution would also find the reliability of what Giorgio Vasari wrote in his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.

Vasari mentioned, in the life of Sebastiano del Piombo, a portrait of Pope Paul III, which wasn't finished.