Raphael's Influence on Giulio Romano

Giulio Romano was an Italian painter and architect during the first half of the 16th century. He was born 1492 in Rome, where as a pupil of Raphael he worked on frescoes in the Vatican loggias according to Raphael’s designs and on Raphael’s fresco of the Fire in the Borgo in the Stanza dell’Incendio, where he painted one group of figures. When Raphael died in 1520, Giulio, along with the help of another student of Raphael, Gianfrancesco Penni, supposedly completed all his unfinished works, including the Transfiguration, the Coronation of the Virgin, the Assumption, and the Hall of Constantine in the Vatican. Over the next 26 years, up until his death, Giulio worked mostly in Mantua, especially on architectural and engineering projects. He also worked in France briefly, where he introduced certain aspects of Italian art. The paintings he produced during that time are largely classified under Mannerism, a style which grew popular in the 16th century until its fall around 1580. He died in 1546 right after he was appointed to be the architect of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Works of Giulio Romano are now highly sought-after, as contemporary engravings made of them spread Italian styles all across Europe.