Sources for Disturbance of the Inner Ear:
Giulio Romano, Renaissance Painter
Giulio Romano Salvagente, Isabel's seducer in
Disturbance of the Inner Ear,
was inspired
by the 15th century painter. |
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This 1527 woodcut copies a raimondi engraving
of a drawing of giulio romano
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Giulio Romano was a protege of Raphael,
and inherited his studio when Raphael died in 1420.
His early work is characterized by High Renaissance
sweetness and clarity, his later work by a sexy Mannerism.
Giulio was so renowned for his trompe l'oeil work that he
is the artist to whom Shakespeare attributes the vividly
lifelike (and actually living) statue of Hermione, in The Winter's Tale.
After Raphael died, Giulio completed his work
for Pope Clement VII. But when Clement refused to pay
him on the grounds that he'd already paid Raphael,
Giulio protested by making sixteen drawings of couples in sexual positions
on the walls of the Vatican. Needless to say, they were destroyed. |
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Giulio was banished from Rome, and spent the rest of his years in the court of the noted Renaissance libertine,
Federico Gonzaga. But the drawings, called I Modi, inspired generations of highbrow pornography. Marcantonio Raimondi engraved a set of prints, which may be the best-known erotic representations in Western culture. They were published along with a set of vulgar sonnets by Pietro Aretino. Aretino's sonnets came to be recognized as an archtype of erotic art, alluded to by English writers as diverse as John Donne, Thomas Nashe, and Ben Jonson, and reproduced in various forms up to the time of the French Revolution and beyond...
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