LIBERALE, Giorgio
(b. 1527, Udine, d. ca. 1579)

Biography

Giorgio Liberale was an Italian artist from Udine who had been working for the imperial court in Prague. He designed over 500 small woodcuts for the first Latin edition of Pietro Andrea Mattioli's illustrated edition of Dioscurides' Materia medica. Liberale also designed nearly 600 large blocks that appeared in the later Prague edition of this text.