# Pietà

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CLOVIO, Giulio](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/clovio-giulio-r9bafc993b96d59>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Tempera over metal point on parchment on wood, 368 x 257 mm

## Commentary

Giulio Clovio was the last of the great miniaturists, bringing the fulsome forms of the Late renaissance into manuscript illustration - a medium rendered rarefied by the currency of printed books. Clovio, a daring colourist, was a friend of Michelangelo and the teacher of El Greco. These various currents are visible in this virtuoso example of sixteenth-century expressionism.

## Related artworks

- [Elymas Struck Blind by St Paul before the Proconsul Sergius Paulus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/clovio-giulio-r9bafc993b96d59/elymas-struck-blind-by-st-paul-before-the-proconsul-sergius-paulus-r73eebf69ced0c0>)
- [Head of Minerva](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/clovio-giulio-r9bafc993b96d59/head-of-minerva-rb936216b8b0fa6>)
- [Page from the Colonna Missale](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/clovio-giulio-r9bafc993b96d59/page-from-the-colonna-missale-r92f21f55d2dbe9>)
- [The Crucifixion of Christ with Saints](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/clovio-giulio-r9bafc993b96d59/the-crucifixion-of-christ-with-saints-r4334ef22c70063>)
- [The Farnese Hours](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/clovio-giulio-r9bafc993b96d59/the-farnese-hours-r74113157c76e40>)
- [The Farnese Hours](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/clovio-giulio-r9bafc993b96d59/the-farnese-hours-rb163f92f46a4f3>)
- [The Farnese Hours](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/clovio-giulio-r9bafc993b96d59/the-farnese-hours-rf3ff2ad6a3ab6f>)
- [The Flagellation of Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/clovio-giulio-r9bafc993b96d59/the-flagellation-of-christ-r0cc624c549da83>)
- [The Lamentation of Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/clovio-giulio-r9bafc993b96d59/the-lamentation-of-christ-r1fda177098f8ca>)
- [The Rape of Ganymede](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/clovio-giulio-r9bafc993b96d59/the-rape-of-ganymede-r505d2b6ef8947a>)
- [The Rape of Ganymede](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/clovio-giulio-r9bafc993b96d59/the-rape-of-ganymede-ra69c7c4cd64f83>)
- [The Three Theological Virtues](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/clovio-giulio-r9bafc993b96d59/the-three-theological-virtues-r3fa0aef06bfb5e>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)