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The Four Evangelists, within a Border of Flowers, Birds, and Insects
Circle of Giulio ClovioLinkedCulture matchlcp-acc7d3bb51a3
- Date
- 1572
- Medium
- Tempera and gold paint on vellum, in paper montage with pen and brown ink and touches of watercolor
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 97442
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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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- Credit line
- Bequest of Katherine R. Loewenthal
- Provenance
- Pope Gregory XIII (died 1583) and all succeeding popes, Sistine Chapel, Rome, c. 1572-1798 [Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997]; probably stolen from Sistine Chapel by Napoleon’s troops, 1798 [Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Abate Luigi Celotti (died 1846?), Venice; sold, Christie’s, London, May 26, 1825, Celotti sale, lot 86, to Molteno [Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997]. William Young Ottley; sold, Sotheby’s, London, May 11-12, 1838, Ottley sale, lot 242, to Adamson [Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Charles Rubens (died 1935), Highland Park, Ill.; by descent to his daughter, Katherine R. Lowenthal, Winnetka, Ill. [Folds McCullagh and Giles 1997]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1982.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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