Giulio Romano had worked in his native…
1524 CE
Giulio Romano had worked in his native Romeo as a young assistant in Raphael's studio, on the frescos in the Vatican loggias to designs by Raphael and in Raphael's Stanze in the Vatican painted a group of figures in the Fire in the Borgo fresco.
He also collaborated on the decoration of the ceiling of the Villa Farnesina.
After the death of Raphael in 1520, he had helped complete the Vatican frescoes of the life of Constantine as well as Raphael's Coronation of the Virgin and the Transfiguration in the Vatican.
Giulio had decorated Rome's Villa Madama for Cardinal Giuliano de' Medici, afterwards Clement VII.
The crowded Giulio Romano frescoes lack the stately and serene simplicity of his master.
Giulio accepts an invitation in 1524 from Federigo II Gonzaga to Mantua, where he will dominate the artistic life of the area as an architect and decorator.