1530
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Four Elements is a 1530 ink by Giulio Romano, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows four figures tangled in swirling robes. One woman sits high, holding a scroll. Another woman kneels, her head bowed. A man on the right plays a violin. The ground is rough, with a wheel and a broken column lying around. The drawing looks like a story about nature’s forces—fire, water, earth, and air. The lines are quick and rough, like the artist was sketching fast. Next, check out Giulio Romano, the artist who made this.
Giulio Pippi (c. 1499 – 1 November 1546), known as Giulio Romano (US: JOOL-yoh rə-MAH-noh( Italian: ) and sometimes known in French as Jules Romain, was an Italian painter and architect. He was a pupil of Raphael, and…
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