Marco Liberi

Marco Liberi (c.1640 – after 1687) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was the son of the painter Pietro Liberi in Padua, and received his training under his father, whose style he imitated.[1] He was active in Padua and Venice.[2] He is known for cabinet paintings of allegorical, mythological and historical subjects.[2]

Asteria pursued by Zeus in the form of an eagle by Marco Liberi

Notes
  1. Bryan p. 53.
  2. Benezit p. 1005.

References
  • Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 53.
  • Benezit, Emmanuel (2006). Benezit Dictionary Of Artists (Volume 8: Koort-Maekava). Grund. ISBN 9782700030709.


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