and often entertaining regular friends as well as visitors. He says he was always cheerful and humorous, and very good company. He became red-faced and rather fat, as the bearded portrait in the Lives suggests. As described above, he had become close to Michelangelo by about 1515. Though they eventually fell out, few people were able to remain on good terms with Michelangelo for a period of nearly twenty years. In 1519 Michelangelo became godfather to Sebastiano's first son, Luciano, after which Sebastiano addressed his letters to "My dearest compare" ("godfather"). The relationship suffered a dip in 1520 when Sebastiano asked Michelangelo to write to Cardinal Bibbiena, a close friend of Pope Leo X, recommending Sebastiano for projects in the Vatican after Raphael's death. Michelangelo sent the letter a month or so later, which Sebastiano presented to the cardinal, without reading it. The letter was in very flippant terms, and Sebastianio complained that it became "practically the only topic of conversation at the Palace, and it makes everyone laugh". Nor did it work in getting Vatican commissions. In 1521 he acted as Michelangelo's agent in the installation of the Risen Christ or Cristo della Minerva in Rome, which was botched by the assistant Michelangelo had sent. From 1525 there is a draft for an emotional letter by Michelangelo passing on praise for Sebastiano by one "Captain Cuio", who he had dined with. In 1531 Sebastiano writes a despondent letter describing how "I still don't feel I am the same Bastiano that I was before the Sack; I still don't feel in my right mind." The relationship never recovered from the argument over the Last Judgement in 1534, described above. Selected works Venetian period Judgement of Solomon, Kingston Lacy, c. 1505–1510, unfinished Altarpiece in San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice (c. 1509) Organ-shutters of San Bartolomeo, Venice, now Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Portrait of a Young Woman as a Wise Virgin (1510) National Gallery of Art, Washington Salome or Judith, 1510, National Gallery, London Roman period Polyphemus (1511) – fresco, Villa Farnesina, Rome The Metamorphosis (1511) – fresco, Villa Farnesina, Rome Christ Carrying the Cross, c. 1513–14, Prado Martyrdom of St. Agatha – Palazzo Pitti, Florence Portrait of a Man (c. 1515) – Oil on poplar, 115 x 94 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Portrait of a Girl (c. 1515) – Oil on wood, 52,5 x 42,8 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest