Design for a Decorated Drinking Cup with Floriated Heads around Large Mouth, Intertwined Serpents as Handles
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk; small corrections in white gouache
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 15/16 x 8 9/16 in. (25.2 x 21.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971
Accession Number
1971.513.16
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...