GIULIO ROMANO
(b. ca. 1499, Roma, d. 1546, Mantova)

Fresco on the south wall (detail)

1532-34
Fresco
Sala dei Giganti, Palazzo del Tè, Mantua

The giants are ill-proportioned but muscular, with grotesque, desperate faces, and they are depicted struggling amid or trying to escape the dramatic collapse of rocks and fictive architecture that Giulio Romano imagined.




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