Pope Sylvester Blessing the Emperor Constantine
Giulio Romano
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on tan laid paper, laid down on card
Dimensions
41.2 × 56 cm (16 1/4 × 22 1/16 in.)
Classification
ink with wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
54933
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...