Resumen de The Lost Decoration of the Chapel of the Magdalene by Giulio Romano and Giovanni Francesco Penni in SS. Trinità dei Monti in Rome: Some New Drawings
New drawings relating to Giulio Romano and Giovanni Francesco Penni's decoration for the Chapel of the Magdalene in SS. Trinità dei Monti, Rome, have been discovered. The Chapel of the Magdalene was decorated in the early 1520s by Romano and Penni, the leading disciples of Raphael and the heirs of his workshop. All traces of their work were eradicated by a renovation of the Trinità dei Monti in the first half of the 19th century, but its essential content can be reconstructed thanks to Vasari's account and a description by Pierre-Jean Mariette. The new drawings are a preparatory study in the Louvre, Paris, catalogued as Battista Franco; a hitherto unrecognized partial copy of the vault by an anonymous 18th-century Italian draftsman, preserved at Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury, England; and a double-sided drawing from Raphael's workshop, probably by Penni, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
