Circle of Giulio Clovio
Croatian, active Italy, 1498–1578
The Four Evangelists, within a Border of Flowers, Birds, and Insects
INV-9744
Circle of Giulio Clovio
Croatian, active Italy, 1498–15781572
The Four Evangelists, within a Border of Flowers, Birds, and Insects
Circle of Giulio Clovio Croatian, active Italy, 1498–1578 →medievaltemperamanuscript
Date
1572
Medium
Tempera and gold paint on vellum, in paper montage with pen and brown ink and touches of watercolor
Dimensions
Overall: 36.7 × 25 cm (14 1/2 × 9 7/8 in.); Individual miniatures; Matthew: 7.8 × 7.5 cm (3 1/8 × 3 in.); Mark: 7.7 × 7.5 cm (3 1/16 × 3 in.); Luke: 7.8 × 7.8 cm (3 1/8 × 3 1/8 in.); John: 7.8 × 7.7 cm (3 1/8 × 3 1/16 in.); Border: 34.3 × 24.5 cm (13 9/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Bequest of Katherine R. Loewenthal
His contemporaries boasted that the illuminator Giorgio Giulio Clovio could paint the entire ' Sistine Ceiling on a single page. This Michelangelesque miniature is actually a collage, and the coat of arms of Pope Gregory XIII suggests that it belonged to a manuscript housed in the Sistine Chapel. When Napoleon's troops raided Rome in the late 18th century, sixty manuscripts were stolen from the pontifical chapel; many of these are known to have been cut up and reassembled.
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