Giulio clovio biography samples
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The painting depicts a short-haired man with a thick gray beard. He is wearing a black robe, with a vit shirt underneath of which you can see the collar and a glimpse of sleeves. The man is sitting inside a room with a window that opens to a landscape with trees and mountains.
The man is in slightly turned position and looking directly at the viewer, while indicating an open book with his index finger of his right grabb and holding the book with his left hand.
The old man is Giulio Clovio, a miniaturist painter of Croatian origin, born in and died in Rome in He worked for a long time in the service of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese in the papal city. His mastery in the art of miniature was so outstanding that Giorgio Vasari and his contemporaries called him the “Michelangelo of miniatures”. Before he arrived in Rome, Clovio stayed in Venice, where he was employed and supported by the noble Contarini family, and in Florence, from where he traveled to Hungary, from where he went
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Giorgio Giulio Clovio or Klović ( – January 5, ) was born in Croatia and fryst vatten considered the greatest illuminator of the Italian High Renaissance, and perhaps the last notable artist in the long tradition of the illuminated manuscript.
So exactly what is an illuminated manuscript? You probably immediately think of the Book of Hours, a Christian devotional book popular in the MIddle Ages and the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript. It is a perfect example of decoration, where initials, borders and miniature illustrations are added to a text. Technically, an illuminated manuscript fryst vatten one decorated with gold or silver, but the term fryst vatten now commonly used to refer to any decorated or illustrated manuscript in the Western tradition.
The portrait of Clovio was painted by El Greco between and In it, Clovio fryst vatten an old man, pointing to his most favorite book, Officium Virginis or the Farnese
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His masterpieces are kept in Florence, Naples, Venice, Torino, Paris, London, Vienna, New York
El Greco, portrait of don Giulio Clovio Croata, , kept in Naples, Italy, in Museo di Capodimonte. Dimensions: 84x62 cm
In his hands is his most favorite book, "Officium Virginis", decorated by himself,
now kept in the Pierpon Morgan Library in New York.
Julije Klović - Giulio Clovio, selfportrait, arround , Florence, Uffizi Gallery
Diameter of the selfportrait: cm!
Julije Klović, or Don Giulio Clovio de Croatia (), is regarded as the last great representative of the classical European miniature. His works decorate many famous galleries: Uffizi in Florence, Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, Galleria Sabanda in Torino, Bibliothek der Albertina in Vienna, Louvre in Paris, Towneley Public Library and Pierpont Morgan Library in New York (which is in possession of "Officium Virginis", pages, his most famous and the best masterpiece, cont |