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Throughout the world he is known by the name of Giulio Clovio, Klović. One of the most illustrious Croats. Renown Giorgio Vasari, first Art critic of the modern world, considered Klović to be the greatest miniaturist of the time and interpolated him within his famed artists' biographies (second edition, 1568).
El Greco, celebrated Greek artist from Spain of crepuscular and mystical atmospheres, painted a portrait of Klović and enlisted that great master of miniature within the line of four painters he himself considered as his teachers - side by side with Michelangelo, Tizian and Raphael. Juraj Julije Klović was named - Michelangelo of the miniature, a title truly suiting him. Codexes with his miniatures became famed actually thanking to master's marvelleously skilled illustrations. He was curiously persuasive in transfering the entire multi-layerness present on the famous pictures of the Italian high Renaissance into the miniature format. Some of by him illustraded books are kept in large libraries, like the Vatican Library in Rome, as well as in London, Vienna, New York, Munich, Paris while other figures are part of many private collections. Small part of his works is exposed in the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery, the art gallery dedicated to him in Zagreb.
He worked in Venice - Venezia - Venecija, Florence and elsewhere, with a long standing active period in Rome- Roma - Rim. His grave is placed in the Church of San Pietro in Vincola, the very same church that keeps celebrated Michelangelo's Moses. Under Klović's bust, beside his name, written is the name of his homeland which he always emphasised - Julio Clovio de Croatia.