High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Giovio Series, also known as the Giovio Collection or Giovio Portraits, is a series of 484 portraits assembled by Renaissance historian and biographer Paolo Giovio (1483–1552). It includes portraits of literary figures, rulers, statesmen and other dignitaries, many of which were done from life. Intended by Giovio as a public archive of famous men, the collection was originally housed in a specially-built museum on the shore of Lake Como. Although the original collection has not survived, a set of copies made for Cosimo I de' Medici now has a permanent home in Florence's Uffizi Gallery. Following Giovio's death in 1552, the original collection was eventually dispersed and lost. It is preserved, however, in a series of copies commissioned that year by Cosimo I de' Medici. Artist Cristofano dell'Altissimo spent 37 years copying the portraits, working from 1552 to 1589. These copies have been displayed in the First Corridor of the Uffizi since 1587.

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