Location: Il documento trascritto deriva da Pungileoni.
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Type:Later record
Language:Italian
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by L. Pungileoni, “Elogio storico di Raffaello Santi da Urbino”, Urbino 1829, pp. 216-17; the present transcription is taken from J. Shearman, “ Raphael in early modern sources”, Yale University in association with the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, New Haven and London 2003, pp. 733-34.
Notes: Pungileoni's transcription is at pp. 216-17.

From a lost letter by Baldassarre Castiglione we learn that the first sketch of the Villa Madama is by Raphael and that the the subsequent contributions are by Giulio Romano and Giovanni da Udine.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: *.1522
Da lettera inedita di Baldassarre Castiglione con più certezza apprendiamo, che il primo schizzo si debbe attribuire a Raffaello, ed a Giulio l’esecuzione della fabbrica e gli abbellimenti in pittura, toltine i grotteschi di Giovanni da Udine.