Immodest I Modi

Michael Prodger

● AMONG RAPHAEL’S MANY ASSISTANTS and collaborators, the most important was Giulio Romano (c1499-1546). According to the seventeenth-century biographer Filippo Baldinucci, Giulio “was so reverent and modest towards his teacher that, while he was alive, he did not even allow his own work to be made into prints, so that no one would think that he was competing with such an incomparable man”. However, a few years after Raphael’s death, reverence and modesty were nowhere to be seen when a series of engravings after Giulio’s designs became both notorious and dangerous. The genesis of the prints is unclear but around 1524, Giulio made a number of drawings probably in preparation for paintings to decorate the Palazzo Te, the Duke of Mantua’s new pleasure palace. GIULIO SHOWED ATHLETIC AND PLIABLE…

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