Design for a Flask with Chain Handles
1540–46
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of leadpoint or soft black chalk
Dimensions
10-7/8 x 8-3/4 in. (27.7 x 22.3 cm) Two fragments, 10.7 x 7.7 cm. and 27.7 x 15.5 cm., mounted on a sheet measuring 27.7 x 22.3 cm.
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1961
Accession Number
61.136.1
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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...