Design for a Candlestick
ca. 1530–46
Medium
Pen and brown ink, light brown wash, over traces of black chalk and some incised lines made with a straight edge
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 5/16 x 6 11/16 in. (36.3 x 17 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, in memory of Walter E. Stait, 2010
Accession Number
2010.450.2
Tags
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...