Giulio Clovio

Giulio Clovio
Juraj Julije Klović
Portrait of Giorgio Giulio Clovio, pointing to his Farnese Hours, by El Greco.
Born1498
Grižane, Kingdom of Croatia
Died5 January 1578 (aged 79–80)
Rome, Papal States
Known forIlluminator, miniaturist, and painter
Notable workFarnese Hours
MovementHigh Renaissance
Engraving of the Cabinet des Estampes Enea Vico after Giulio Clovio (1522).

Giorgio Giulio Clovio or Juraj Julije Klović (1498 – 5 January 1578) was a Croatian-Italian illuminator, miniaturist, and painter born in the Kingdom of Croatia, who was mostly active in Renaissance Italy.[1] He is considered the greatest illuminator of the Italian High Renaissance, and arguably the last very notable artist in the long tradition of the illuminated manuscript, before some modern revivals.

  1. ^ John Van Antwerp Fine, When ethnicity did not matter in the Balkans: a study of identity in pre-nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the medieval and early-modern periods, University of Michigan Press, 2006, p 195 Google Books