Jupiter Hurling a Thunderbolt
Giulio Romano
1530–37
Medium
Brown ink and washes, black chalk underdrawing, traces of red chalk, laid paper
Dimensions
6 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (16.8 x 19.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2000
Accession Number
2000.578
Tags
Jupiter
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...