I’m Italian, I love art and history, and these are some of the places I’ve explored

✧ Te Palace 1524–1534 — Mantua, Lombardy, Italy

Italian High Renaissance architecture

Mannerist illusionistic painting

Giulio Romano masterpiece

Study of Two Bulls Fighting, Giulio Romano, 16th century, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Steiner Size: actual: 12.4 x 24.5 cm (4 7/8 x 9 5/8 in.) Medium: Brown ink over traces of black chalk on tan antique laid paper, drum-mounted to wove decorated mount

Design for a Decorated Drinking Cup with Floriated Heads around Large Mouth, Intertwined Serpents as Handles, Giulio Romano, n.d., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Drawings and Prints

Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971 Size: Sheet: 9 15/16 x 8 9/16 in. (25.2 x 21.7 cm) Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk; small corrections in white gouache

Design for Two Candlesticks with decorated Bases, Giulio Romano, early 16th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Drawings and Prints

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949 Size: Image: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (36.9 x 26.6 cm) Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of leadpoint

Design for a Decorated Base of a Candlestick Holder, Giulio Romano, early 16th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Drawings and Prints

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949 Size: sheet: 2 13/16 x 5 7/8 in. (7.1 x 15 cm) Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash. Design silhouetted