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Romano, Giulio
(Rome, 1499 - Mantua, 1546)
Giulio Pippi, better known as Giulio Romano (Rome, ca. 1499-Mantua, 1st November 1546), was a 16th-century Italian painter, architect and decorator, a prominent pupil of Raphael, whose innovations in High Renaissance classicism helped to define the style known as Mannerism. Romano's drawings have been highly prized by collectors. Engravings of his works executed during this period played a highly influential role in disseminating the Mannerist style throughout Europe.
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Penni, Giovan Francesco (il Fattore)
(Florence, 1488 - Naples, 1528)
Giovan Francesco Penni, il Fattore (Florence, 1488 - Naples, 1528) was a 16th-century Italian painter of the roman school and a student of Raphael, for which reason he was also called “il fattorino di Raffaelo".
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Charles I of Spain and V, Holy Roman Emperor
(Gante (Bélgica), 1500 - Yuste (Cáceres), 1558)
The second of six children born to Joanna I (1479-1555) and Philip the Handsome (1478-1506), the future Charles I of Spain and V, Holy Roman Emperor spent his childhood in Mechelen (Belgium). Count of Flanders and Lord of the Netherlands since the death of his father in September 1506, his aunt, Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1480-1530) –the widow of Prince John (1478-1497), second son of the Catholic Monarchs, and younger sister of Philip the Handsome– ruled as Regent until he attained his majority in 1515. He was educated by Adriaan Florensz Boeyens, the future Pope Adrian VI. Although Prince Charles had a Spanish tutor, Luis Cabeza de Vaca, his childhood and early youth were spent in a predominantly French-speaking cultural environment.