# Portrait of Giulio Romano [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TIZIANO Vecellio]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 101 x 86 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Giulio Romano c. 1536 Oil on canvas, 101 x 86 cm Palazzo della Provincia, Mantua Born in Rome, the son of one Pietro Pippi, and later named for his birthplace, Raphael's pupil Giulio Romano settled in Mantua in 1524, and assumed an important and versatile role there. Besides building and decorating the Palazzo del Tè, he constructed roads and fortresses, created theatrical sets and decorations for festivities, and designed carnival costumes and table silver. In Titian's portrait he is presenting himself as an architect, holding the very innovative ground plan for a centrally planned church, following examples by Brunelleschi and Bramante. ## Related artworks - [A Knight of Malta]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Allegory of Time Governed by Prudence]() - [Angel of the Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle \(detail\)]() - [Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()