G. L. ; G., Georg (perhaps also Genzio/Genesio/Gennesio) / Georgius Libualis ;
1527 c. in Udine, Italy
1579 or 1580
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
woodcutter-family with German origins
pupil of Pellegrino da San Daniello / Pellegrino da San Daniele / Martino da Udine (1467-1547) ;
Czech Republic
500 woodblocks for Pier Andrea Mattioli (1501-1578) in an illustrated edition of Dioscurides' Materia medica ; Herbarz 1562 & commentary on Dioscurides 1565/71 and 1558 ; Leonhard Thurneissen: Historia sive descriptio plantarum omnium (Berlin 1578) ;
c. 1100 animal pictures for archeduke Ferdinand II of Austria ;
->Wolfgang Meyerpeck / Mayerpeck ;
botanical, natural, ichthyological, and animal drawing, woodcut, watercolour painting, and xylography
AKL ; ThB 23 1929: 183 ; Blunt & Raphael 1979: 133 ; Nagler VII ; Lack 1987: 44f. ; Lack: Eden 2008 ; Lucia T. Tomasi & G. A. Hirschauer: Flowering of Florence. Botanical Art for the Medici (Washington 2002: 29) ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 #1310 & pp. 53-55 ; Bruce T. Moran in Matteo Valleriani (ed.): The Structures of Practical Knowledge (Heidelberg 2017: 404-8) ; Natur & Kunst. Handschriften & Alben aus der Ambraser Sammlung Erzherzog Ferdinands II, Vienna 1995: 37 & 64-76 ; Becker 2015: 40-45 ;
G. L. was active in Italy, Austria (esp. in Görz 1562-1576 & Innsbruck 1576-1580) and in the Czech Republic (Gorizia and Prague (since 1558), where he was called Genzio/Gennesio Liberale von Udine from Meissen)). He specialized on zoological illustration, esp. animal, shell, and fish studies. See also: http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=9675&-max=25 .
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