Excerpt from The Life and Works of Giorgio Giulio Clovio: Miniaturist, With Notices of His Contemporaries, and of the Art of Book Decoration in the Sixteenth Century
I have been told - for my possible consolation - by a long-established bookseller of the class formerly more common than at present, and of whom the Alduses, Stephenses, and Plantins are the elder examples, that he has often been astounded at the extent of popular ignorance respecting Cellini and his autobiography. If this be so, what can be expected, with regard to his now obscure, but once at least equally celebrated, contemporary Giulio Clovio? Nevertheless the subject is one which, if not well known, ought to become so. The importance of Miniature Art to the proper understanding of the general question of artistic culture and the progress of the Arts of Painting and of Book illustration is no longer a matter of special knowledge.
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