Girolamo dai Libri (1474/1475 – July 2, 1555) was an Italian illuminator of manuscripts and painter of

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s, working in an early-

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style. Accademia - Madonna col Bambino e angeli musicanti - Girolamo Dai Libri.jpg, Virgin and child with angels musicians

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He was born and mainly active in

. His father was Francesco dai Libri, and was so named because he was an illuminator of books. Girolamo's works were noted by

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. Girolamo was a pupil of

Domenico Morone Domenico Morone ( 1442 – 1518) was an Italian painter from Verona, painting in an early Renaissance style. Much of his work has not survived, notably his fresco cycles. He was considered by Vasari to be second only to Liberale da Verona among a ...

.Berenson B. Dai Libri painted his first altarpiece, a

Deposition from the Cross The Descent from the Cross ( el, Ἀποκαθήλωσις, ''Apokathelosis''), or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels' accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after hi ...

for

Santa Maria in Organo 300px, Facade and bell tower of Santa Maria in Organo. Santa Maria in Organo is a Roman Catholic church in Verona, Northern Italy. History The church's origin dates to the 6th–8th century, at the time of the Ostrogoth and Lombard dominations ...

, at the age of sixteen.

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* * Berenson, B. North Italian Painters of the Renaissance. (GP. Putnam's Sons, 1907), p. 240. 1470s births 1555 deaths 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Artists from Verona Italian Renaissance painters Manuscript illuminators {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub