Battle Scene with Soldiers Mounted on an Elephant.
Giulio Romano
1550–1650
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk
Dimensions
9-5/8 x 8 in. (24.5 x 20.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.42
Tags
BattlesSoldiersBow and ArrowShieldsElephants
About the Artist
Giulio Romano · 1499–1546
Giulio Romano (c. 1499–1546) was the most gifted pupil of Raphael and one of the founding figures of Mannerism, the style that succeeded the High Renaissance in Italy. Born Giulio Pippi in Rome, he entered Raphael's workshop as a boy and proved so talented that by the time of Raphael's death in 1520 he was effectively running the studio and overseeing the completion of major unfinished commissions...