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Volume One: 14th - 16th century</u>, London, 1979, cat. 153, p. 75, illus.\n\nThe following is the full text of the entry: \n\nGIULIO ROMANO \nGiulio Pippi (c. 1499-1546)\r\n\r\n153\r\nFragment, showing the upper part of a putto bearing a rectangular tablet on his shoulders \nInscribed in capitals within the tablet 'Ab insomni non custodita dracone'. \nPen and ink \r\n3 1/4 x 5 1/8 (83 x 130) \t8643 H \r\nPROVENANCE Given by Miss Georgiana Lornlin 1880 \r\n\r\nFormerly anonymous: attributed to Giulio on firm stylistic grounds by Dr Konrad Oberhuber. The same putto, tablet and Latin inscription are found on a drawing at Windros Castle (Schilling and Blunt, p. 47, no. 2; fig. 1). The Windsor drawing shows more of the composition than ours, with an eagle standing on the tablet and the apples of the Hesperides as a background. The eagle, the apples and the Latin motto were used as an impresa by Ippolito II d'Este, Cardinal of Ferrara. They are painted or carved, as Blunt observes, on some of the ceilings of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli. They appear, for example, in the ceiling of the Camera della Nobilta, for which Federico Zuccaro was responsible, according to Vasari (D. R. Coffin, the <i>Villa d'Este at Tivoli</i>, Princeton, 1960, pl. 70); and again in the Cardinal's bedroom. Blunt attributes the Windsor drawing to Livio Agresti, one of the artist employed in the Villa d'Este. But it is more probably a copy of our drawing or of another similar design by Giulio. Giulio was dead before the Villa d'Este came into existence. But as Mr John Gere pointed out to me, it is recorded that Ippolito d'Este chose the motto and the impresa at the time when he was made a Cardinal, in 1538, and Giulio was working for the Estes in Ferrara in 1537-38. (See Coffin, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 95 and Hartt, pp. 77-79). It is perfectly possible, therefore, that Giulio might have made a drawing of the Cardinal's impresa.\r\nThe meaning of the impresa is discussed in Coffin, op. cit., pp. 78-79. The Latin motto is taken from Ovid, (<i>Metamorphoses</i> IX, 190). It refers to the apples of the Hesperides, which were unsuccessfully guarded by a sleepless dragon."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["8643H"],"accessionNumberNum":"8643","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-12","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}