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Giulio Romano and Baldassare Peruzzi
Giulio Romano and Baldassare Peruzzi, two artists in Raphael's circle, also designed extremely successful prints inspired by classical antiquity. Talented maiolica painters, such as Francesco Xanto Avelli, could employ the same print to create very different compositions. For his plate depicting Vulcan, Venus, and Cupid, Xanto borrowed only the figures of Apollo and a muse from the corners of Peruzzi's print, while the female figure alone was included, now placed on a wheeled platform, in a separate, and obscure, allegorical composition. The Battle Scene after Giulio Romano was also a popular model for maiolica, being more or less completely transposed onto ceramics -- as in the striking dish by the Painter of the Coal Mine Service -- or drastically edited, using only a few figures, as in the plate by the Painter of the Three Graces, painted shortly after the publication of the print. |