Julius Romano - Finestre sull'Arte

Giulio Romano at the Ducal Palace, an exhibition of drawings in the places for which they were imagined

More than 270,000 visitors were counted when the doors of the major exhibition on Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi de' Iannuzzi; Rome, c. 1499 - Mantua, 1546), which had begun just two months earlier, on September 1, 1989, closed at Palazzo Te in Mant...
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What was sex like in the sixteenth century? Made of orgies, dildos and acrobatic copulation: ask Giulio Romano and colleagues

"Petrarchism is a chronic disease of Italian literature," wrote Arturo Graf at the beginning of one of his memorable essays in 1888: and the sixteenth century is "the century in which Petrarchism floats, luxuriates, triumphs and overflows." It is d...
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Giulio Romano, Correggio, Bonsignori: an extraordinary return. The exhibition on the sixteenth century in Polirone

Catching the eye in the Great Refectory of the San Benedetto Po monastic complex is undoubtedly the Last Supper by Girolamo Bonsignori (Verona, 1472 - Mantua, 1529), a monumental work that returned after more than two centuries to its original lo...
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Giulio Romano's major exhibition in Mantua. Here's what we'll see this fall at the Ducal Palace

Mantua will dedicate, from October 6, 2019 to January 6, 2020, in the halls of the Ducal Palace, a major exhibition to Giulio Romano (pseudonym of Giulio Pippi de' Jannuzzi, Rome, 1492 or 1499 - Mantua, 1546), the most talented of Raphael's pupils. T...
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Giulio Romano returns to Mantua. In 2019, a major exhibition at Palazzo Ducale traces his career

2019 will be the year of Giulio Romano (real name Giulio Pippi, Rome, 1492 or 1499 - Mantua, 1546), the most famous of Raphael's pupils, who found a second home in Mantua, the city of the Gonzagas: next year, in fact, the city of the three lakes will...
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