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In Italy. 399 many of his master's greatest works, and inherited his feeling for classic beauty and his powerful drawing, but not his grace of design or purity of colouring. A re- markable series of paintings by Romano decorate the Palazzo del Te, at Mantua, which was also built from his designs. Fig. 140. — Madonna della Sedia. By Raphael. In the Pitti Palace, Florence. Giulio Romano had for pupils Francesco Primaticcio (1490-1570), who first worked under him at Mantua, but afterwards became famous for his scenes from the Odyssey (now destroyed), which he executed in the Palace of Foirtainebleau, whither he was invited by Francis I. in 15.31; and Giulio Clovio (1498-1578), who is more celebrated for his illuminations than his paintings.