# Jupiter Handing a Newborn Boy to Diana [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PERINO DEL VAGA]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with yellow, on four joined sheets of light-brown prepared paper, 368 x 462 mm ## Commentary Perhaps the most singular talent active in Raphael's studio, Perino propelled his master's classical manner into the exuberant and elegant style that became known as Mannerism. Even more than his painted oeuvre, Perino's drawings are as puzzling in their stylistic diversity as they are exciting for their virtuosic use of the pen and their inventiveness. The present sheet – bold in style, large in scale, unusual in technique – is an exceptional example of the artist's originality. The drawing belongs to a group of eleven sheets, all executed with pen and brush on brown-tinted paper and heightened with yellow bodycolour. The result seems to have been meant to imitate bronze reliefs, not unlike the scenes Perino is known to have painted for Raphael in the Vatican Loggie. The other sheets of the group are in various museums The present sheet is the only one of the group in private collections, the others are in various museums \(Courtauld Gallery, London; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Musée du Louvre, Paris; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden\). ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Alexander the Great Battles the Indian King Porus]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [General view]() - [Hope, Venus, and the Martyrdom of St Paul]() - [Lamentation]() - [North Façade of the Villa Doria]() - [Shipwreck of Aeneas]() - [Sketch for St John the Baptist Preaching]() - [Sketch for the Feast of Herod]() - [Sketch for The Visitation]() - [Tarquinius Priscus Founds the Temple of Jupiter on the Campidoglio]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()