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...Giulio Romano was so well known in his time that he is the only painter mentioned in any of Shakespeare's plays. Famous, and rather vulgar. If Raphael was the epitome of grace among artists of the High Renaissance and Michelangelo the paragon of sublimity, then Giulio was all licentious facility. So ran the judgment of our Victorian forebears, who could not quite forgive Raphael's best pupil for his indelicacy. An air of brilliant second- rateness still clings to his name. Those who can thrust their way through the crowds in Palazzo Te in Mantua and manage a long...
...Although Giulio Pippi de'Giannuzzi was born in Rome, took the city's name, worked in Raphael's studio and, as a very young man, must have known both Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, it was in Mantua that he found his voice as an artist. As architect and painter to Federico II Gonzaga, he became Mantua's virtual artistic dictator in his 20s and remained so until he died at the early age of 47. There, projects poured from him in an undiverted stream: not only frescoes and panel paintings and the innumerable sketches that preceded them, but also...
...instrument of this colossal output was drawing. Giulio was incontestably a great draftsman. Drawing was as natural to him as speech; Raphael, in fact, took him on as a studio assistant when Giulio was not much more than ten. The grace, the spontaneity of his pen line -- rushing over the paper as though impelled by the lightest inflection of thought, quick but always controlled, strengthened by brown washes that confirm its structure -- does not always translate to the paintings and frescoes, where it seems heavier and overdetermined. But with Giulio, design and invention were inseparable, and their combination is worn...
Benign as the experience has been so far in this fiscal wonderland, the present Italian government is determined to blow the whistle. Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti has framed a budget strategy that aims at balancing the books by 1993 through a combination of tax increases and spending cuts. Similar targets have been set and missed before, but this time a new sense of urgency comes from the danger that Italians may start sending their savings abroad when capital movements in the European Community are freed next year. Bank of Italy Governor Carlo Ciampi warns that "a change in the handling...
Artists, often quite dissimilar ones, share common sources. The themes of pastoral delight, installed in Venetian art by Giorgione (represented here with one rare, very rubbed drawing) and given monumental form by Titian, spread south and north through the influence of the Giorgionesque engravers Giulio and Domenico Campagnola. Watteau copies one Campagnola landscape; Rubens takes a motif from another, Rembrandt from a third. These hard, wiry- lined little engravings, with their slightly metallic nudes and sudden dark explosions of vegetation, are to the circulation of ideas about landscape what Marcantonio Raimondi's copies after Raphael are to the human figure...