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

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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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. 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.Berenson B. Dai Libri painted his first altarpiece, a Deposition from the Cross for Santa Maria in Organo in

, 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 Italian manuscript illuminators {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub