Grotesque paintings from the Vatican loggias, Rome, Italy, (1928). '1517-1519...The Loggie were started in the summer of 1517 and are stated as being completed on 4th May, 1519. The paintings are all by Raphael's pupils...Raphael...appointed Giovanni da Udine to superintend the stuccoers and the painting of the grotesques, and Giulio Romano to superintend the figure-work...' After a water-colour by Bernhard Bonk. Plate LXXXIV, fig 173 [the upper continuation of Fig. 172], from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]
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