# Exterior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RAFFAELLO Sanzio]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Etching ## Commentary After the resolved Classical order and measured harmony of Bramante's High Renaissance buildings, two main, though interwoven, directions of Mannerist development become apparent. One of these, emanating largely from Peruzzi, relied upon a detailed study of antique decorative motifs - grotesques, Classical gems, coins, and the like - which were used in a pictorial fashion to decorate the plane of the façade. This tendency was crystallized in Raphael's Palazzo Branconio dell'Aquila \(destroyed\) at Rome, where the regular logic of a Bramante façade was abandoned in favour of complex, out-of-step rhythms and encrusted surface decorations of medallions and swags. The second trend exploited the calculated breaking of rules, the taking of sophisticated liberties with Classical architectural vocabulary. Two very different buildings of the 1520s were responsible for initiating this taste, Michelangelo's <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/5archite/early/6bibliot.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/5archite/early/6bibliot.html">Laurentian Library</a> in Florence and the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/giulio/1pala\_te/index.html'\)" href="/html/g/giulio/1pala\_te/index.html">Palazzo del Tè</a> by Giulio Romano in Mantua. The <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/f/falda/branconi.html'\)" href="/html/f/falda/branconi.html">etching by Giovanni Battista Falda</a> shows the façade of the palace. ## Related artworks - [A Group of Nude Men]() - [A Group of Warriors]() - [A nude man advancing to the right \(verso\)]() - [A Soldier before the Cell of St Peter]() - [A Youthful Warrior \(recto\)]() - [Adam and Eve \(ceiling panel\)]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aldobrandini Madonna \(Garvagh Madonna\)]() - [Allegory \(The Knight's Dream\)]() - [Amorini at play \(verso\)]() - [An Angel]() - [Angel \(fragment of the Baronci Altarpiece\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()