Girolamo dai Libri (1474–1555)

• Was an Italian illuminator of manuscripts and painter of altarpieces.
• He was born and mainly active in Verona.
• His father was Francesco dai Libri, and was so named because he was an illuminator of books.
• Girolamo's works were noted by Giorgio Vasari.
• Girolamo was a pupil of Domenico Morone.
• Dai Libri painted his first altarpiece, a Deposition from the Cross for Santa Maria in Organo in Verona, at the age of sixteen.
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