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Reference number

Vol 143

Purpose

Giulio Clovio (1498-1578), Volume containing illuminations on the Commentary on the Epistle of St Paul to the Romans by Cardinal Marino Grimani, 1530s, ff. 142. MS pages remounted. Bound in green velvet (425 x 330)

Medium and dimensions

ff. 142. MS pages remounted. Bound in green velvet (425 x 330)

Hand

Giulio Clovio (1498 - 1578)

Notes

Illuminations on ff. 1; 2, verso; 7, verso; 8 f.1 Left-hand border, including figure of Fate with spindle, illuminated figure `I’ and landscape panorama attributed to Pieter Breugel the Elder by Charles de Tolnay (Burlington Magazine, June 1978, p. 393). E. G. Millar, `Les manuscrits à peintures des bibliotheques de Londres’, Bulletin de la Société francaise de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures, IV. 2 (1914-20), MS 11, pp 116-128; see also ed. Jonathan J.G. Alexander The Painted Page : Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450-1550, London 1994, Catalogue No.133

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450-1550, Royal Academy of Arts, London, October 1994 - January 1995; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, February - May 1995
Giving Our Past a Future: The Work of the World Monuments Fund Britain, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 26 October 2012 - 26 January 2013
Pietro Bembo e l'invenzione del Rinascimento, Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, Padua, 2 February - 19 May 2013

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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