Autore: Boitani, Piero
Titolo: Le metamorfosi e l’arte di Giulio Romano prima e dopo Palazzo Te
Periodico: Strumenti critici
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 168 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 217 - Pagina finale: 234

The theme of this essay is metamorphosis as displayed by Giulio Romano’s art in Shakespeare’s "Winter’s Tale", in the frescoes of Raphael’s Villa Farnesina in Rome, and in Giulio’s own decoration of Palazzo Te in Mantua, the two classical literary models which inspire architects and painters in both buildings being Ovid and Apuleius. Shakespeare brings metamorphosis to the extreme in a scene which goes beyond the debate on Art as imitation of Nature to the ultra-natural aura of ultimate change, that of resurrection, Giulio being the author of a statue which becomes new life. Raphael and Giulio, as painters, go hand in hand in the Villa Farnesina, placing Apuleius’ story of Cupid and Psyche at the centre of a complex system of iconography, which is supposed to be integrated with Baldassarre Peruzzi’s Ovidian sequence. Once Giulio is on his own in the Mantouan Palace he builds and decorates, he elevates the Ovid-Apuleius duality to a unity which transcends it.




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