Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano (Rome ca. 1492-1546 Mantua)
From the Collection of Jean Bonna
Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano (Rome ca. 1492-1546 Mantua)

Design for a frieze with a putto and acanthus leaves

Details
Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano (Rome ca. 1492-1546 Mantua)
Design for a frieze with a putto and acanthus leaves
pen and brown ink, squared in red chalk
12 7/8 x 6 3/8 in. (32.6 x 16.2 cm)
Provenance
with Galerie de Bayser, Paris.
Literature
N. Strasser, Dessins italiens de la Renaissance au siècle des Lumières. Collection Jean Bonna, Geneva, 2010, no. 32, ill.
S. L'Occaso, Giulio Romano 'Universale'. Soluzioni decorative, fortuna delle invenzioni, Mantua, 2019, pp. 85, 87, ill.

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Lot Essay

A typical example of Giulio’s inventive decorative vocabulary, this design and a second one in Budapest (fig.) were likely made for a frieze or compartment to be executed in fresco or stucco at Palazzo Te, Mantua (1526-1536). As recently shown by L’Occaso (see Literature), the motif was precisely followed later by Bernardino Gatti, il Sojaro, for the background of his Saint Thomas, frescoed on the drum of the dome of S. Maria di Campagna, Piacenza, ca. 1542.

Fig. Giulio Romano, Design for a frieze with a putto and acanthus leaves, Szépmuvészeti Múzeum, Budapest.
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