Cassiano Dal Pozzo
Cassiano dal Pozzo and Alchemy See more » Alessandro Albani. Alessandro Albani (15 October 1692 – 11 December 1779) was a prominent jurist and papal administrator, remembered best as a leading collector of antiquities and art patron in Rome. New!!: Cassiano dal Pozzo and Alessandro Albani See more » Alessandro Algardi. Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657) was born in Turin and brought up and educated in Pisa. In 1612 he moved to Rome, where he found himself among influential and cultivated patrons. After taking up a position in Cardinal Barberini's household in 1623, Cassiano soon became a prominent figure in Rome's aristocratic and intellectual life. The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series A: Antiquities and Architecture (HMPMA) The ‘Paper Museum’ of Cassiano dal Pozzo is a collection of more than 7,000 watercolours, drawings and prints, today dispersed among the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the British Library, the Institut de France and various other public and private collections.
During the 17th century the antiquarian Cassiano dal Pozzo embarked upon an epic attempt to document and record the major fields of knowledge of his day. Together with his younger brother Carlo Antonio he assembled what became known as the Museo Cartaceo or Paper Museum consisting of over 10,000 watercolours, drawings and prints illustrating. Cassiano dal Pozzo was an Italian scholar and patron of arts. The secretary of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, he was an antiquary in the classicizing circle of Rome, and a long-term friend and patron of Nicolas Poussin, whom he supported from his earliest arrival in Rome: Poussin in a letter declared that he was 'a disciple of the house and the museum of cavaliere dal Pozzo.'
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- (edtf) 1588-02-21
Death Date
- (edtf) 1657-10-22
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- (naf) Turin (Italy)
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- (naf) Rome (Italy)
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- ita
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- Dal Pozzo, Cassiano
- Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 1588-1657
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- found: Museo cartaceo di Cassiano Dal Pozzo, 1989:t.p. (Cassiano Dal Pozzo) p. 1 (b. 1588, Turin; d. 1657, Rome)
- found: Diz. biog. degli Ital., 1986:v. 32, p. 209 (Dal Pozzo, Cassiano iunior, b. Torino 2/21/1588) p. 210 (d. Roma 10/22/1657)
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Martin Clayton, LVO, FSA, (born 1967) is Head of Prints and Drawings for Royal Collection Trust at Windsor Castle. He is a specialist in the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci.
Early life[edit]
Martin Clayton was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire on 30 December 1967 to David and Brenda Clayton. He was educated at King James's School, Knaresborough, and from 1986 to 1990 at Christ's College, University of Cambridge, where he studied Natural Sciences and History of Art, graduating with a first.[1] He credits his interest in art to a school trip to the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg where he was fascinated by the chisel marks on a sculpture there.[2]
Career[edit]
After graduating, Clayton began to work in the Print Room of the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, as Assistant Curator, subsequently becoming Deputy Curator, Senior Curator, and (in 2013, on the retirement of Jane Roberts) Head of Prints and Drawings. He has curated many exhibitions in the UK and internationally based on material in the royal collection and written the corresponding catalogues. He is a specialist in the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci.
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Clayton is the editor of the natural history volumes of the catalogue raisonné of the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, the major part of which is held in the Royal Library at Windsor.[3] He also co-wrote the volume on Cassiano's Aztec Herbal with Luigi Guerrini and Alejandro de Ávila.[4]
Honours[edit]
Clayton was made a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in the 2015 New Year's honours list.[2][5]
Selected publications[edit]
- Leonardo da Vinci: The Anatomy of Man. Bulfinch Press, 1992 (with Ron Philo)
- Poussin: Works on Paper. Drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. Merrell Holberton, London, 1995. ISBN978-1-85894-019-9
- Leonardo da Vinci: A Curious Vision. Drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. Merrell Holberton, London, 1996. ISBN978-1-85894-028-1
- Raphael and his circle: Drawings from Windsor Castle. Royal Collection, 1999.
- Leonardo da Vinci: The Divine and the Grotesque. Royal Collection, 2002.
- Holbein to Hockney: Drawings from the Royal Collection. Royal Collection, 2004. ISBN978-1902163642
- Canaletto in Venice. Royal Collection, 2005. ISBN978-1902163819
- The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection: Renaissance and Baroque. Royal Collection, 2007. (With Lucy Whitaker) ISBN978-1902163291
- The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Flora: The Aztec Herbal. 2009. (With Luigi Guerrini and Alejandro de Ávila) ISBN978-1-905375-30-1
- Leonardo da Vinci. The Mechanics of Man. Royal Collection Trust, 2010 (with Ron Philo)
- Leonardo da Vinci. Anatomist. Royal Collection Trust, 2012 (with Ron Philo)
- Castiglione: Lost Genius. Royal Collection Trust, 2013. (With Timothy J. Standring) ISBN978-1-905686-77-3
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References[edit]
- ^Martin Clayton MVO FSA.Royal Drawing School. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ^ abRoyal curator's King James’s memories.Harrogate Advertiser, 19 January 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ^THE PAPER MUSEUM OF CASSIANO DAL POZZO A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ.Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine The Warburg Institute. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^Flora: The Aztec Herbal. Brepols Publishers. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^New Years Honours List Christ's College Cambridge. Retrieved 20 April 2016.