Giulio Clovio

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Giulio Clovio points to the Farnese Book of Hours, El Greco
Clovio: Colonna Missal, Calling John, 1532

Giulio Clovio (* 1498 in Grižane near Crikvenica , † January 5, 1578 in Rome ) was an important miniature painter .

The first name Giulio is a monk's name that he adopted in 1528, previously he had the first name Giorgio . His name has been passed down in Italian ( Giorgio Giulio Clovio ) and Latin ( Georgius Iulius Clovius ). He also signed, referring to his South Slavic origins, as Crovatinus, Illiricus, Macedonus etc .; however, a South Slavic form of his name has not survived. In today's Croatian, the Croatian name form Juraj Julije Klović is predominantly common, but other reconstructed South Slavic name forms also appear (first name also Jure ; last name also Klovič, Glavičić, Glovičić ).

Life

He came to Italy in 1516 and worked in Venice , Florence and for a long time in Rome under the guidance of Giulio Romano . Among other things, he copied copperplate engravings by Albrecht Dürer .

In 1523 he went to Buda (now Budapest , Hungary ), where he was in the service of King Ludwig II until his death in the Battle of Mohács in 1526 . After returning to Italy, he entered a monastery near Mantua in 1528 , but because of an injury he was taken to a monastery near Padua for care , where he met Girolamo dai Libri , from whom he learned book illumination. In 1531 he entered the service of Cardinal Marino Grimani .

From 1539 until his death he was in the service of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese in Rome , although until 1561 he also painted miniature pictures on behalf of various nobles. In the last years of his life he was a patron of the young painter El Greco . Clovio was with numerous artists such. B. Michelangelo and Giorgio Vasari became friends and worked with Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the 1550s when he was in Rome.

He is buried in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli . Giorgio Vasari referred to him in 1568 as the "Michelangelo of miniature painting". His most important work is the Book of Hours by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese .

literature

Articles in encyclopedias

Monographs

  • Giorgio Vasari: The lives of the excellent gem cutters, glass and miniature painters Valerio Belli , Guillaume de Marcillat and Giulio Clovio (1550/1568). Ed., Commented and introduced by Anja Zeller. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8031-5030-2
  • Ivan Kukuljević-Sakcinski : Life of G. Julius Clovio. A contribution to Slavic art history , 1852
  • John W. Bradley: The life and works of Giorgio Giulio Clovio, miniaturist. With notes of his contemporaries, and of the art of book decoration in the sixteenth century , 1891
  • Elena M. Calvillo: Imitation and invention in the service of Rome: Giulio Clovio's works for cardinals Marino Grimani and Alessandro Farnese , Diss. Baltimore 2003 (microfiche)

Articles in books and magazines

  • Riebesell, Christina: Giulio Clovio (1498–1578) as a court artist , in: Re-Visionen. On the topicality of art history , Festschrift for Alexander Perrig , ed. v. Barbara Hüttel et al., 2002 ( ISBN 3-05-003597-8 ), pp. 123-143

Commented facsimile editions of his works

  • Cardinal Alessandro Farnese's book of hours: with the miniatures by Giulio Clovio in the possession of the Pierpont Morgan Library New York. Single and ext. by Webster Smith. Prestel, Munich 1976.
  • The Farnese Book of Hours: Ms M.69 of the Pierpont Morgan Library New York , Commentary by William M. Voelkle and Ivan Golub, 2003 ( ISBN 3-201-01799-X )

Web links

Commons : Julije Klović  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Warriors in AKL
  2. ^ Kruno Prijatelj: Clovio, Giorgio Giulio . In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , Volume 26; the latin. Shapes are used at M. Pc. i V. Fo .: Article "Klović, Juraj Julije" on the homepage of the Lexicographical Institute Miroslav Krleža in the first line in the brackets in the second place.
  3. ↑ a b Kruno Prijatelj: Clovio, Giorgio Giulio . In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , Volume 26.
personal data
SURNAME Clovio, Giulio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clovio, Giorgio (baptismal name); Clovio, Giorgio Giulio; Clovius, Georgius Iulius; Klović, Juraj Julije
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Miniature painter and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH 1498
PLACE OF BIRTH Grižane near Crikvenica
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1578
Place of death Rome