Design for a Frieze with a Putto and Acanthus Leaves
Medium
Pen and brown ink, red and black chalk
Dimensions
32.6 × 16.2 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund
Accession Number
2020.70
Tags
male
About this artwork
After working to fresco the papal apartments in Rome under Raphael in the 1510s, Giulio Romano became the court artist to Federico II Gonzaga, 1st Duke of Mantua (r. 1530–40), where his universal talents as an architect, designer, and painter transformed the duke’s unadorned Palazzo del Te into an elaborate setting for leisure and courtly activity. It was through drawings that Giulio planned everything from the most important narrative sequences of the palace, to the most seemingly insignificant...