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Giuffre  \nALL RIGHTS RESERVED  \nDESIGN IN RAPHAEL’S ROMAN WORKSHOP  \nBy  \nJOSEPH RANDALL GIUFFRE  \nA Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School-New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Program in Art History written under the direction of  \nDr. Sarah Blake McHam  \nand approved by  \n________________________________________  \n________________________________________  \n________________________________________  \n________________________________________  \nNew Brunswick, New Jersey January 2008  \nABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION  \nDesign in Raphael’s Roman Workshop  \nBy JOSEPH RANDALL GIUFFRE  \nDissertation Director:  \nDr. Sarah Blake McHam  \nThis dissertation examines the frescoes of the Vatican Stanze and the altarpiece of the Transfiguration and all the drawings associated with them in an effort to understand the design process in Raphael’s Roman workshop. During the last six years of his life Raphael developed a new way of deploying the talented artists in his shop. He employed specialists to perform specific tasks called for by certain commissions. He also trained assistants to perform specific tasks related to the design of major paintings. By the end of Raphael’s life, Giulio Romano had emerged as a major artistic force. Once the drawings for the Vatican frescoes are examined in the context of all the available documentary evidence, it becomes clear that Giulio designed important parts of the Vatican fresco cycles, sometimes with no apparent intervention by the master and that Giovanni Francesco Penni created modelli of complex compositions that had been worked up by the master or by Giulio. I draw a different conclusion from all previous scholars who always reserved the ideation of the works of art to Raphael’s creative genius alone. Unlike earlier scholars I see the mind, not just the hand, of Giulio Romano and Giovanni Francesco Penni engaged in the design process. This new way of working may have  \nbeen suggested to Raphael by his experience working with Pinturicchio on the designs for the frescoes of the Piccolomini Library in Siena. Raphael created original design drawings for this project despite the fact that he was employed by an artist thirty years his senior who had been commissioned to carry out the work. Just as in this case, when Raphael became too busy to attend to every detail of his production himself he did not reserve the design process to himself. In fact, in most cases he seems to have allowed assistants to design and carry through major paintings. He and his shop managed to create innovative and sophisticated works of art while at the same time inviting new ways of working that challenged traditional notions of artistic genius and creativity.  \nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  \nI am profoundly grateful to Dr. Sarah Blake McHam. She took on this dissertation in midstream and most of what is good in it is due to her advice and patience. I am also very grateful to my wife Shelley Langdale for her love and support. I owe her more than I can adequately express. My parents Emma Jo and Paul Giuffre and my inlaws Sharry and Dan Langdale have shown the greatest love and support during this project. I thank them for that and for financial support. I also want to thank Dr. Marcia Hall for reading part of this dissertation and providing invaluable advice. Thanks are also due to Dr. Eric Stake.  \nI also want to thank my committee Dr. Catherine Puglisi, Dr. Tod Marder, and Dr. Laura Giles for their comments and help.  \nThis dissertation is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Rona Goffen.  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nAbstract of the Dissertation……………………………………………………………….ii  \nAcknowledgments……………………………………………………………..............…iii  \nList of Figures………………………………………….…….......………………………..v  \nChapter 1: The Problem and Review of the Literature………………………....…………1  \nChapter 2: Before Rome (1483-1508) and the Stanza della Segnatura ","cbCaimAc04t0sCE1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimAc04t0sCE1","pdf",27514574,393,"English","# Chapter 1: The Problem and Review of the Literature\n# Chapter 2: Before Rome (1483-1508) and the Stanza della Segnatura (1508-11)\n## Raphael and Giovanni Santi\n## Raphael and Perugino\n## Raphael and Pinturicchio\n## The Stanza della Segnatura\n# Chapter 3: The Stanza d’Eliodoro (1511-14)\n# Chapter 4: The Stanza dell’Incendio (1514-17) and the Loggia di Raffaello (1516-17)\n## The Stanza dell’Incendio\n## Loggia di Raffaello\n# Chapter 5: The Sala di Costantino (1519-24)\n# Chapter 6: The Transfiguration (1518-20)\n# Chapter 7: Conclusion\n# Bibliography\n# Illustrations\n# Curriculum Vita","[{\"question\":\"What artworks and materials does the dissertation focus on?\",\"answer\":\"The study centers on the frescoes of the Vatican Stanze and the altarpiece of the Transfiguration, along with the drawings associated with them to analyze Raphael’s Roman workshop practices.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the dissertation describe Raphael’s workshop organization in his final years?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that Raphael increasingly relied on specialists for specific commission tasks and trained assistants to handle particular design responsibilities connected to major paintings.\"},{\"question\":\"What core conclusion does the dissertation reach about authorship and design ideation?\",\"answer\":\"It concludes that Giulio Romano and Giovanni Francesco Penni participated meaningfully in the design process, not merely executing Raphael’s ideas, challenging scholarship that credited ideation solely to Raphael.\"}]","Design in Raphael’s Roman Workshop - Dissertation | PDF",990]