The Holy Family

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The Holy Family

Creator

Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi)

Italian Artist · 1499–1546

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Giulio Romano was so famous in the century after his death that he is the only "modern" artist mentioned by Shakespeare in a play. A Roman native, by about 1515 he was working for Raphael in the Vatican, eventually becoming the master's most trusted aide. Raphael's late works indicate the increasing torsion and tension that Mannerist artists like Giulio would bring to full flower, ideas that Giuli

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Giulio Romano set Christ and John the Baptist's first meeting on the day of the traditional Jewish purification ceremony, forty days after John the Baptist's birthday. The meaning of this enigmatic painting is unclear, and it has been known by several titles. At right a woman carries a basket with two turtledoves, the required offering of the poor. After the purification ceremony, at which the priest recognized Christ's destiny, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus visited her cousin Elizabeth and John the Baptist, Elizabeth's son. Precociously, Jesus opens a book, showing that his birth signaled the debut of a new era. The scroll, one of the Baptist's attributes, reads *Ecce Agnus Dei* (Behold the lamb of God). As Raphael's most important protégé, Giulio adapted Raphael's late style in the darkly evocative landscape and these tightly interlocked figures and idealized female faces. Features typical of Giulio's work include the metallic palette, muscular figures with heavy features, and lively details such as the dog dashing out the doorway at left and the *all'antica* landscape at right.

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Artist/Maker
Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi)
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RK6
Date
about 1518–1520
Medium
Oil (possibly mixed with tempera) on panel
Culture
Italian
Object Type
Painting

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Object ID
0342428e-f24b-43ab-b0e5-209987580982
Object Type
Painting
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Creator
Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi)
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Culture
Italian
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Medium
Oil (possibly mixed with tempera) on panel
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Department
Paintings
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Credit Line
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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Date
about 1518–1520
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Begin Year
1518
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End Year
1520
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