BILIVERT (BILIVERTI), GIOVANNI. — Painter, born, according to some, in Maastricht, but more probably in Florence to a Flemish father in 1576; died in Florence in July 1644. He was a pupil of Ludovico Cardi, known as il Cigoli. Among his principal works on sacred subjects are the Angel refusing Tobiah’s gifts in the Pitti Gallery and Joseph’s Chastity in the Uffizi. His canvas depicting Lucretia and Tarquinius in the gallery of the Accademia di S. Luca in Rome is very well known. B. was an excellent draughtsman and at the same time possessed a highly developed sense of colour values.
BIBL.: Geisenheimer, s. V. in Thieme-Becker, IV, pp. 28–29 (with bibliography). For the Lucretia, cf. C. Ricci, Il Cagnacci e le Lucrezie romane, in Annuario dell'Arcad. di S. Luca, 1913–1914, pp. 109–31; R. Longhi, Gentileschi, padre e figlia, in Corte, 19 (1916), p. 304. Vincenzo Golzio