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 8i LIBERALK DA VERONA— LICINIO tegna. His execution is hard, but the expression of his heads is occasionally graceful, and his works are finished with great care. Libei*ale was also in the earlier part of his career a laborious miniature-paiDter, or illuminator of books and MSS.: the recorded pay- ments for such work are considerable. Works, Verona, the Duomo, an Adoration of the Kings: the Vesco- vado, in the chapel, tlie Adoration of the Kings ; and the Birth and the As- sumption of the Virgin. Milan, the Brera, San Sebastian. Chiusi, cathe- dral, Illuminated Books, those executed in 1467-9 for Montoliveto Maggiore. Siena, in the library of the Duomo, an Illuminated Missal (1470-4). Ber- lin Gallery, on wood, with the inscrip- tion LiberalU VeronenaU me fecit 1489, the Virgin and Child enthroned, with Saints. (Vasari.) LIBEBI, Oav, Pietro, 6. at Padua, 1605, rf. Oct. 18, 1687. Paduan and Venetian Schools. Scholar of Varotari, called II Padoyanino, and considered by some the best draftsman of the Venetian School. He studied the works of the great masters at Home, at Parma, and at Venice, and formed for himself a manner partaking of something of every style. He had two manners, a bold and careless, and a minute and laborious; the former, as he explained, for the expert and intelligent, the latter for the ignorant He was the first President of the Academy of Painters of Venice. liberi painted many pic- tures for the churches at Venice, but he preferred galleiy subjects of a lighter nature, consisting of mythological and allegorical scenes, and especially naked Venuses after the manner of Titian, whence he was sometimes called li- bertino. Among his greater works are accounted, the Battle of the Darda- nelles, in the Ducal Palace: and the Slaughter of the Innocents, in the church of OgnissanU, at Venice: Noah leaving the Ark, in the cathedral at Vicenza: and the Deluge, in Santa Maria Maggiore, at Bergamo. In the Berlin Museum is Acteon metamor- phosed by Diana into a Stag. {Zanetti^ Lami,) LIBBI, OmoLAKO dai, b, at Verona, 1472, d. July 2nd, 1555. Venetian School. He was the son of Francesco, an illimiinator, hence called Dai libri, a surname which descended to Giro- lamo, who was a great painter in the ordinaiy sense of the word, as well as a masterly illuminator of books or manuscripts. Girolamo's greater works are his Madonnas, in which, though he lived far in the sixteenth century, it has been observed we see none of those peculiarities or mannerisms of the schools which have more or less characterised even the greatest art epochs, in which mere technical or physical qualities have too often pre- vailed. Girolamo dai libri worked more in the spirit of the quattrocento painters — Mantegna, Perugino, or Bel- lini. He executed many illuminations for church services of Verona, which appear to be now dispersed : those es- pecially praised by Vasari are lost. Works. Verona, Sant' Anastasia, a Madonna enthroned, with Saints : simi- lar subjects in San Giorgio in Braida, Santa Maria in Organo, and San Tom- maso Gantuariense. Palazzo del Con- siglio, Galleiy, a Nativity; a Madonna enthroned, with Saints; and other works. Berlin Museum, a Madonna enthroned, with Saints and Angels. {Vasari,) LICINIO, Cav. Gio. Antonio, called, firom his binh-plaoe in the Friuli, II PoRDENONE, b. 1483, d, 1539. Venetian School. He was the scholar of Pelle- grino da San Daniele; he is some- times called Cuticelli, from his mothei^ name, and also Di Begillo. Pordenone is one of the most distingubhed of the Venetian fresco-painters; he formed