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

Study for the Holy Family

1518
Red chalk, 173 x 119 mm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Pope Leo X commissioned from Raphael the Holy Family (now in the Louvre), for which this drawing was made. The study from a model for the figure of Mary shows Giulio Romano at work to define a pose from life, with special concentration on the contours of the left arm and leg.




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