1500
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Design for the decoration of a pilaster: infant angels playing round the stem of a candelabrum is a 1500 by Giulio Romano, a Renaissance work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a drawing from the Renaissance. It shows baby angels playing around a candelabrum on a pilaster. The artist used pen, ink, and wash with red chalk. It was made to be copied onto a wall as paint or stucco. The red chalk lines helped transfer the design. Giulio Romano trained with Raphael and worked for the Gonzaga family in Mantua. Look up this artist’s work at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Giulio Romano created a design for decorating a pilaster featuring infant angels playing around the stem of a candelabrum. Executed in pen and ink with wash around 1530–40, the drawing includes red chalk squaring to assist in transferring the composition onto a wall surface. The work was likely intended to be realized in paint or stucco. Romano, a pupil of Raphael, worked primarily for the Gonzaga court in Mantua and also produced designs for jewelry, tapestries, and metalwork.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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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