Item Info

Language: Latin
Folio Number: front
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Portrait of St. Luke
Notes: This cutting has been attributed to Giulio Clovio, or perhaps a follower who worked in a nearly identical manner. Born in Croatia in 1498, Giulio moved to Italy to become one of the most important illuminators of the sixteenth century. Giorgio Vasari, the great sixteenth-century biographer of Renaissance artists, described him as a "Michelangelo of small works." Perhaps it is no coincidence then that the very codex that scholars believe this cutting to have come from was housed in the Sistine Chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the pope, and the site of Michelangelo's famous ceiling painted sixty years earlier. The codex, which survives only in fragments, was made for Pope Gregory XIII shortly after his papacy began in 1572.
Notes: This cutting has been dated to ca. 1572.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1595931
Country: Country:Italy
City/Town/Township:Rome

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1575
Image Dimensions Width: 83 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E M 27:7
Creator Name: Giulio Clovio, or close follower of - Artist