Madonna tra i santissimi Lorenzo Giustiniani e Zeno

Girolamo dai Libri's Madonna between Saints Lorenzo Giustiniani and Zeno belongs to his series of altarpieces for Veronese churches, depicting local saints particularly venerated in the Veneto region. Lorenzo Giustiniani, the first patriarch of Venice, and Saint Zeno, the patron of Verona, are local ecclesiastical heroes whose presence in Veronese altarpieces connected the universal Church's devotional program with specific regional sacred history. Dai Libri's precise illuminator's technique and warm coloring, combined with the balanced sacra conversazione composition he inherited from the Bellini tradition, creates altarpieces of refined quality appropriate for institutional church settings.

The devotional composition is rendered with attention to the expressive and contemplative qualities that served the painting's function as an aid to prayer and meditation.