Branconio study   

Perspective study of the back side of the courtyard of the Palazzo Branconio dell'Aquila (1518-1520)

by:   Romano      category: Drawing   

note:  Frommel (1967/68) notes that the "completely Raphaelesque language, the need to bestow a Trajanic splendour on the piano nobile and, simultaneously, to enclose a great number of rooms and floors within a limited space, the opening of the wall - . . . all the multiple weaknesses of this project are more attributable to the nineteen-year-old Giulio . . " (145)