Liberale da Verona (1441–1526) was an Italian painter of the

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period, active mainly in

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. In popular culture: In the British TV series ''

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'', in the episode " The Death of the Self", the works of Liberale da Verona are subject to forgery.

Biography

He was a pupil of the painter Vincenzo di Stefano, although he was strongly influenced by

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and

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. He was featured in the ''Vite'' of

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. In Verona, he painted an ''Adoration of the Magi'' in the Duomo, and another for the chapel in the bishopric. For the church of San Bernardino, he painted in the chapel of the company of the Maddalena. He also painted a ''Birth'' and ''Assumption of the Virgin''. At the

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, there is a ''St. Stephen''. There are illuminated books by him in cathedral of

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. The ''St Sebastian'' in the

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is attributed to Liberale. He traveled to Siena to work in the Abbey of the monks of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto, where he illuminated a number of manuscripts. Among the painters that are cited as his pupils are Giovanni and

Giovanni Francesco Caroto Giovanni Francesco Caroto (1480 – 1555 or 1558) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance active mainly in his native city of Verona. He initially apprenticed under Liberale da Verona (1445–1526/1529), a conservative painter infused with the ...

;

Francesco Torbido Francesco Torbido (Venice 1486–1562) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Verona and Venice. He is also known as ''il Moro''. Biography He studied in Venice under Giorgione and then went to Verona and married the ...

also known as ''il Moro''; and Paolo Cavazzola.''Le vite de' pittori, degli scultori, et architetti veronesi''
by Bartolomeo Dal Pozzo (1718), page 18.

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