The Giusti Family of Verona

portrait

This work was originally the bottom part of an altarpiece, which was probably in the Church of S. Maria in Stelle, Verona. The group of six men and nine women has traditionally been identified as the Giusti family of Verona, although none of the family can be identified by comparison with other portraits.

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About the Artist

Antonio da Vendri

1476 – 1555

Italian painter. He worked in Verona between 1517-45; his name appears in documents not only as a painter, but also as a baker and tailor. He was a pupil of Liberale da Verona. One of his brothers was a painter too. As an artist he primarily painted religious-themed paintings for church commissions. He painted a Madonna and Child with Two Angels in 1518 (Verona, Museo Civico di Castelvecchio), and was commissioned by Cardinal Bernardo Clesio to paint frescoes (now lost) in Toblino Castle near Levico, Trent, in 1536. A fresco fragment, possibly by Antonio, showing the Madonna and Child and St Roch, survives in the church of Santa Maria in Stelle, Verona.

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