Study for Venus Asking Jupiter for the Services of Mercury as Herald
n.d.
Medium
Pen and iron gall ink, with brush and green-gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on laid paper prepared with brown wash, laid down on ivory laid card
Dimensions
20.3 × 28.8 cm (8 × 11 3/8 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82062
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...