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  Juraj Julije Klović - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Juraj Julije Klović or Giorgio Giulio Clovio (1498–1578), known worldwide as Giulio Clovio, was a miniaturist painter and by profession a priest.
Klović was by birth a Croat born in Grižane, near Crikvenica in Kvarner bay.
Juraj Julije Klović was also known as Michelangelo of the miniature.
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 Croatian Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Klovic, educated in his native Croatia, came to Italy at the age of 18 to study art.
Klovic's likeness, with that of Michelangelo and Raphael, is also included in El Greco's painting of Christ Driving the Money-changers form the Temple (Minneapolis, MN).
Klovic died in Rome on January 3, 1578 and was buried in St. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome.
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 Juraj Julije Klovic -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The renowned (Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574)) Giorgio Vasari, the first art critic of the modern world, considered Klović to be the greatest miniaturist of the time and included him within his famed artists' biographies (second edition, 1568).
Juraj Julije Klović was also known as Michelangelo of the (Painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)) miniature.
Under Klović's bust, beside his name, is written the name of his homeland, which he always emphasized: Julio Clovio de Croatia.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ju/juraj_julije_klovic.htm   (198 words)

  
 Croatian art
Juraj (Giorgio) Spavento was an important 15th century builder in Venice, whom chronicler Marin Sanuto called homo di grande inzegno.
Juraj Culinovic (1435-1504), Croatian Renaissance painter, was acitve in his native town of Sibenik.
Julije Klovic, or Don Giulio Clovio de Croatia (1498-1578), is regarded as the last great representative of the classical European miniature.
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 Croatia Stamp New Issues.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
4k The eastern part of the cathedral with the transept and dome, and a fragment of the Baptisman fountain, built by Juraj Matejev Dalmatinac, 1443.
500th Anniversary of the Birth of Julije Klovic.
5k Portrait of Cardinal and Archbishop Juraj Haulik.
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 Glagolitic in Lika, Krbava, Gacka, Modrus and Senj
The missal is important also due to a short note written in the book more than hundred years later, in 1482, by Juraj Zakan from the town of Roc in Istria, where he mentions his excitement with activities related to printing the first Croatian incunabulum, published in 1483.
The book had intersting history: written for the church of St. Juraj Koprivski on the beautiful Zrmanja river (at that time called Kopriva), it was in Zadar in 1440, in Rome in 1627, in England in 1808 (Kensington House).
It is known that in 1882 it arrived from London to Berlin as a part of Hamilton's collection (named according to a Scottish collectionar Hamilton).
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 MINIATURIST GIULIO CLOVIO AND HIS EYE DISEASE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Croat Juraj Julije Klovic (Georgius Julius Clovius Croata) (1498-1578), better known as Don Giulio Clovio, was the prominent miniaturist and painter.
He lived and worked in Italy, mostly in Rome, in the time of high renaissance and mannerism.
From the Clovio's correspondence with his contemporaries and from his portraits we can learn about his eye disease and even about the medical treatment.
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 The 500th ANNIVERSARY JURAJ JULIJE KLOVIC BIRTH
The Croatian National Bank issued a commemorative 200 kuna silver coin to mark 500th anniversary of Croatian painter Juraj Julije Klovic birth.
He is a representative of miniature art and he contributed to the Croatian and European fine arts.
Anniversary of the Croatian State Parliament Constitution May 30, 1990 - May 30, 2000"
www.hnb.hr /numiz/zla-sre/klovic/eklovic.htm   (197 words)

  
 www.dalmacija.net - Dalmatia ::: General Information / Croatian History
1866 - Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer founds the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the first in southeast Europe
GUNDULIC, IVAN (1589 - 1638) writer; known for his epic "Osman", which exalts the freedom-loving spirit of Dubrovnik Republic
KLOVIC, JULIJE (1498 - 1578) painter, the greatest European miniaturist of his time, painted for the Roman Pope and for the Medici family in Florence
www.dalmacija.net /site/articles/articleshow.php?id=33   (1740 words)

  
 Adriatic.hr - Over Kroatië
SPLIT - historical city center with the Antique Diokletian's Palace, one of the most important preserved late Roman historical monuments and a part of UNESCO's World Heritage List; the Cathedral of Saint Dujmo, the old Croatian church of St Trinity and other significant locations
SIBENIK - historical urban complex with the famed Renaissance Cathedral of St Jacob, the work of famous sculptors Juraj Dalmatinac and Nikola Fiorentinac, and a number of palaces and churches, a part of UNESCO's World Heritage
KLOVIC, JULIJE (1498-1578.) painter; the greatest European miniaturist of his time, he painted for the Roman Pope and for the Medici family in Florence
www.adriatic.hr /upoznajmohr_ohrvatskoj.php?lang=fr&lang=nl   (3203 words)

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