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Raphael and Giulio Romano

1944; College Art Association; Volume: 26; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00043079.1944.11409393

1559-6478

Frederick Hartt,

Visual Culture and Art Theory

Although incidental attempts have been made to separate the activities of the late Raphael from those of his pupils and collaborators,2 the only author to treat the problem as a whole was Hermann Dollmayr,3 whose opinions have remained the locus classicus for our knowledge of the Raphael school. The present study is an attempt to bring the entire problem up to date, especially as regards the personality of Giulio Romano. The other members of the workshop, Penni, Raffaellino dal Colle, Giovanni da Udine, Benedetto Pagni da Pescia, either repeated endlessly the ideas of Raphael (later those of Giulio as well), or drifted from bottega to bottega, always as mere artisans or decorators.4 Giulio was the only one of Raphael's immediate assistants who ever became an independent artist in his own right, influential both on his own times and on succeeding generations, and considered as the rightful heir of Raphael and the exponent of the majestic Roman tradition.