Girolamo dai Libri was an Italian

Italy

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 illuminator of manuscripts and painter of altarpiece

Altarpiece

An altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. The altarpiece is often made up of two or more separate panels created using a technique known as panel painting. It is then called a diptych, triptych or polyptych for two,...

s, working in an early-Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

 style.
He was born and mainly active in Verona

Verona

Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

. His father was Francesco dai Libri

Francesco dai Libri

Francesco dai Libri, the elder, born at Verona in 1452, was the son of Stefano dai Libri, an illuminator of books. He was the father of Girolamo dai Libri, and is known as an illuminator of choir books for the churches of his native city.-References:...

, and was so named because he was an illuminator of books. Girolamo's works were noted by Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...

. Girolamo was a pupil of Domenico Morone

Domenico Morone

Domenico Morone was an Italian painter from Verona, painting in an early Renaissance style.Domenico Morone is known from a few panels, mainly depicting public festivals or tournaments, in which the figures in the crowds are small...

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

Santa Maria in Organo

Santa Maria in Organo is a 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 in Italy. The original convent was destroyed in Napoleonic times. The church was rebuilt after an earthquake in 1117...

 in Verona

Verona

Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

, at the age of sixteen.