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667Visual Documentation copy of Giulio’s lost design includes an iconoclastic motif which Primaticcio, or whoever executed the panel [Fig. 13.53], declined to include, presumably afraid of overburdening the composition. Other themes from this ceiling in- clude Mercury teaches Bacchus to read, Apollo and Pan [Figs. 13.55–13.56], and Caritas Romana [Figs. 13.57–13.58]. Apart from drawings related to the ceiling-panels of the Camera degli Stuc- chi, we find similar copies after the designs for the Camera dei Venti and the Camera delle Aquile. Of particular interest is a design [Fig. 13.59] for a stuc- co relief incorporating the antique crouching Venus ‘Lely’, at the time in the Gonzaga collection, that was inserted in the west end-wall of the Galleria dei Marmi in the Palazzo Ducale, as is documented in Andreasi’s drawing [fol. 22; Fig. 13.60–13.61].65 One of the copies is derived from a lost drawing by Giulio otherwise only known through a print by Adamo Scultori.66 Some scenes that I have not been able to identify possibly document projects that were never realized, or have 65 Fols. 307/24, Departure of a ship; 308/ 25, Diana with two hounds; cf. Belluzzi 1998, Saggi, p. 396, cat. nr. 524; fol. 295/12, Amorino on Jove’s Throne, cf. Belluzzi 1998, pp. 414, cat. nr. 662. 66 Fol. 287/4, Cupid Playing with the Arms of Mars, not executed element of the design for the stucco relief of Mars resting in one of the Lunettes in the Camera degli Stucchi. Figure 13.56 Giulio Romano or workshop, Apollo and Pan, design for a compartment of the ceiling of the Camera degli Stucchi, Palazzo del Te; Royal Collections Trust. Figure 13.55 Workshop of Jacopo Strada, Apollo and Pan, copy of a design by Giulio Ro- mano for a compartment of the ceiling of the Camera degli Stucchi, Palazzo del Te; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. min 21,3, fol. 8r.