CLOVIO, GIORGIO GIULIO (1498-1578), a historical and portrait painter, was born in Sclavonia. At the age of eighteen he went to Rome, where he spent three years in the study of drawing and miniature painting. His knowledge of colouring was derived from the instructions of Giulio Romano, and his taste in composition and design was formed by a close study of the works of Michael Angelo Buonarroti. With the assistance of these he attained such excellence in portrait as well as in historical painting, that he was accounted nearly equal to Titian in the former, and in the latter only inferior to Buonarroti himself. His principal works are the Corpus Christi at Rome and the Descent from the Cross at Milan.