Schets van een schouder

c. 1515

Joins Raphael's workshop

The young Giulio became the most gifted pupil and one of the chief assistants in Raphael's crowded workshop, working with him on the frescoes of the Villa Farnesina and the Vatican Loggias and Stanze; his hand is recognised, for example, in the monochrome herms beneath the Expulsion of Heliodorus and the Fire in the Borgo. The start of the collaboration is placed around 1515.

1520

Inherits Raphael's workshop

After Raphael's early death, Giulio, under his master's will, inherited the workshop and its commissions together with his long-time collaborator Giovan Francesco Penni — the start of his independent career. He was entrusted with finishing the master's unfinished work, including the frescoes of the Hall of Constantine in the Vatican.

late 1524

Moves to Mantua

Having finished his Roman commissions, Giulio agreed in late 1524 to move to Mantua, where he stayed for the rest of his life. There, as a non-native artist, he came to be called after his origin, Giulio Romano, 'the Roman' (the name is also linked to his fame as a connoisseur of Roman antiquities).

1526

Appointed prefect of Mantua's building works

The post of prefect of building works and 'superintendent of the city streets' put him in charge of all the court's architecture and art — from frescoes to the fanciful inventions fashionable at the Mannerist courts of Europe.

1546

Set to lead the building of St. Peter's

Giulio was to return to Rome to become chief architect of the building of St. Peter's, but death prevented it.

1 November 1546

Died