Properly GIULIO DEI GIANNUZZI, also known as GIULIO PIPPI. A
famous architect and painter, the best-known of Raphael's
pupils, and the unique representative of the so-called "Roman
School"; b. at Rome in 1492; d. at Mantua in 1546. At the age of
19, Giulio placed himself under Raphael, who had just finished
after three years (1509-12) the Halls of the Segnatura and
Heliodorus. In 1514, Raphael was appointed general overseer of
works by Leo X, conducted in 1519 the excavations of ancient
Rome, and found it difficult to carry out all his undertakings.
It came thus to pass that the assistant was soon the factotum
and right hand of the master, who during the later portion of
his career seldom found time (except for a few portraits) to
take a brush into his hands. As an artist, Giulio has no
originality; as a painter, he is merely a tempérament, a
prodigious worker. His manual dexterity is unaccompanied by any
greatness of conception or high moral principle. He enlarged and
executed in fresco or on canvas the draw