Giulio Romano, an Italian painter and architect, whose family name was Pippi, born in Rome in 1492, died in Mantua in 1540. He was the most distinguished pupil of Raphael, whom he assisted in many of his paintings, and who made him his chief heir and appointed him to complete his unfinished works. After the death of his master, Leo X. and Clement VII. employed him, together with Gian Penni, to finish the history of Constantino in the Vatican; and he executed several works for the public edifices at Rome, was also employed there as architect, and painted his celebrated picture of the Stoning of St. Stephen for the church of San Stefano at Genoa. He was afterward invited to Mantua, and engaged both as architect and painter on the palazzo del Te. The "Defeat of the Titans," in one of the halls of the palace, is one of the best examples of his style. He worked with his pupils on many other edifices at Mantua, and just before his death was appointed to succeed Sansovino as architect of St. Peter's.