ailing 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.

Giovan Francesco Caroto was born at Verona in the year 1470, and after
having learned the first rudiments of letters, being drawn to painting,
he abandoned the studies of grammar and placed himself to learn painting
under the Veronese Liberale, undertaking to recompense him for his
pains. Young as he was, then, Giovan Francesco devoted himself with such
love and diligence to design, that even in his earliest years he was a
great assistance to Liberale both in that and in colouring. No long time
after, when his judgment had increased with his years, he saw the works
of Andrea Mantegna in Verona; and thinking, as indeed was the truth,
that these were of another manner and better than those of his master,
he so wrought upon his father that he was given leave, with the gracious
consent of Liberale, to apprentice himself to Mantegna. Having gone to
Mantua, therefore, and having placed himself under Mantegna, in a short
time he made such proficience that Andrea sent out works by Caroto as
works by his own hand. In short, before many years had passed by, he had
become an able