Cristofano dell'altissimo, saladino, ante 1568 - Serie Gioviana

Suleiman the Magnificent by Dell'Altissimo

Cristofano dell'Altissimo (c. 1525–1605) was an

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painter in

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. For duke

Cosimo I de' Medici Cosimo I de' Medici (12 June 1519 – 21 April 1574) was the second Duke of Florence from 1537 until 1569, when he became the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, a title he held until his death. Life Rise to power Cosimo was born in Florence on 12 ...

he copied in

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at least 280 of the portraits from the Collection of

Paolo Giovio Paolo Giovio (also spelled ''Paulo Jovio''; Latin: ''Paulus Jovius''; 19 April 1483 – 11 December 1552) was an Italian physician, historian, biographer, and prelate. Early life Little is known about Giovio's youth. He was a native of Com ...

known as the

Giovio Series The Giovio Series, also known as the Giovio Collection or Giovio Portraits, is a series of 484 portraits assembled by the 16th-century Italian Renaissance historian and biographer Paolo Giovio. It includes portraits of literary figures, rulers, st ...

(484 in total). Most of them can be seen at the

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Bibliography

* Aleci, Linda Kinger. "Images of Identity: Italian Portrait Collections of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries." "The Image of the Individual: Portraits in the Renaissance" Eds. Nicholas Mann and

Luke Syson Luke Syson is an English museum curator and art historian. Since 2019, he has been the director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, prior to which he held positions at the British Museum (1991–2002), the Victoria and Albe ...

. London: British Museum Press, 1998. 67–79. * Campbell, Lorne. ''Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait-Painting in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries.'' New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. * Fossi, Gloria. ''Uffizi Gallery: Art, History, Collections''. Firenze: Firenze Musei, 2001. * Giovio, Paolo. ''An Italian Portrait Gallery''. Translated by Florence Alden Gragg. Boston: Chapman & Grimes, 1935. * Haskell, Francis. ''History and its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past''. Yale University Press. 1995. , * Müntz, Eugène. "Le Musée de portraits de Paul Jove. Contributions pour servir à l’iconographie du moyen âge et de la renaissance," ''Mémoires de l'Institut nationale de France, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres'', Vol. 36, no. 2, 1900. 249–343. * Zimmermann, T. C. Price. ''Paolo Giovio: The Historian and the Crisis of Sixteenth-Century Italy''. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.

External links

Silvia Meloni Trkulja: CRISTOFANO di Papi dell'Altissimo in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 31, Roma 1985
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dellaltissimo, Cristofano 1520s births 1605 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Florence