Resumen de Folengo and Romanino: the questione della lingua and its eccentric trends
Around 1519 the works of the Brescian painter Girolamo Romanino underwent a dramatic stylistic change: formerly a close follower of Titian, he developed an anticlassical, heterodox visual language. This shift in Romanino's career should not be interpreted in the traditional narrative terms of the provincial artist unable to maintain the pace of his more distinguished colleague. An analysis of Romanino's network of patrons and his probable relationship with the Benedictine monk and macaronic writer Teofilo Folengo suggests instead that the painter's experiments were a conscious and cultivated critique of the High Renaissance classical canon as best represented in Northern Italy by Titian.
