Memoirs of the early Italian painters / by Anna Jameson; thoroughly revised and in part rewritten by Estelle M. Hurll.
- Anna Brownell Jameson
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Memoirs of the early Italian painters / by Anna Jameson; thoroughly revised and in part rewritten by Estelle M. Hurll. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![are a proof that greatness and correctness of style do not depend on size and space; for into a few inches square, into the ara- besque ornaments round a page of manuscript, he could throw a feeling of 'the sublime and beautiful worthy of the great mas- ters of Art. The vigor and precision of his drawing in the most diminutive figures, the imaginative beauty of some of his tiny compositions (for Giulio was no copyist), is almost incon- ceivable. His works were enormously paid, and executed only for sovereign princes and rich prelates. Fifteen years of his life were spent in the service of Pope Paul III. (1534-1549), for whom his finest productions were executed. He died in 1578, at the age of eighty. [Examples of his work are in the library at Naples and in the Vatican library.] Besides the Italians, Innocenzo da Imola, Timoteo della Vite of Bologna, and Andrea da Salerno of Naples, many painters came from beyond the Alps to place themselves under the tuition of Raphael; among these were Bernaertvan Orley from Brussels; Michael Coxis from Mechlin ; and Georg Pencz from Nuremberg. But the influence of Raphael’s mind and style is not very apparent in any of these painters. Giulio Clovio](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24877888_0261.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
