Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 06 (of 10): Fra Giocondo to Niccolo SoggiVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 06 (of 10): Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
On the corner of the house of the Cartai, on the way from the Ponte
Nuovo to S. Maria in Organo, in Verona, he painted a Madonna and S.
Joseph in fresco, a work which was much extolled. Liberale would have
liked to paint the Chapel of the Riva family, which had been built in
order to honour the memory of Giovanni Riva, a captain of men-at-arms at
the battle of the Taro, in the Church of S. Eufemia; but he did not
receive the commission, which was given to some strangers, and he was
told that he was too old and that his sight was failing him. When this
chapel was opened, a vast number of faults were perceived in it, and
Liberale said that he who had given the commission had been much more
blind than himself.
[Illustration: MINIATURE
(_After_ Liberale da Verona. _Siena: Duomo Library_)
_Anderson_]
Finally, being eighty-four years of age, or even more, Liberale allowed
himself to be ruled by his relatives, and particularly by a married
daughter, who, like the rest, treated him very badly. At which, having
grown angry both with her and with his other relatives, and happening to
have under his charge one Francesco Turbido, called Il Moro, then a
young man, who was a diligent painter and much affected towards him,
he appointed him as heir to the house and garden that he had at S.
Giovanni in Valle, a very pleasant part of the city; and with him he
took up his quarters, saying that he would rather give the enjoyment of
his property to one who loved virtue than to those who ill-treated their
nearest of kin. But no long time passed before he died, which was on the
day of S. Chiara in the year 1536, at the age of eighty-five; and he was
buried in S. Giovanni in Valle.
His disciples were Giovan Francesco Caroto and Giovanni Caroto,
Francesco Turbido, called Il Moro, and Paolo Cavazzuola, of whom, since
they were truly excellent masters, I shall make mention in their due
order.
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