

Dante's Inferno provides the inspiration for this painting and the dark underworld he envisions creates a fiery backdrop for the action. The painting also explores both the interesting visual effects of light and the narrative power that light embodies. "fascination with the active human figure and my desire to capture the power and poetry that results from the detailed description of the body in dramatic poses. Of his painting " The Fifth Circle" Liberace has said. He also holds painting and sculpture workshops in locations throughout the United States and abroad. He teaches at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia, which was founded and headed by the late renowned painter Nelson Shanks, and the Art League in Alexandria, Virginia. Stephen Dougherty, the executive editor of American Artist magazine. Liberace's work has been written about extensively by M. In 2003 the National Portrait Society awarded him their grand prize. He has been proclaimed by the Art Renewal Center to be one of several score of current "accredited", "living masters". His sculptural commissions include the Our Lady of Vailankanni in marble, and the terracotta rendering of Mother Teresa for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, in Washington, DC. Greene, the last of which resides in the Vermont State House. Accomplished in both sculpture and painting, as a portraitist his commissioned subjects have included the 41st President of the United States George H.W Bush, ambassador Sol Linowitz, former United States National Portrait Gallery director Marc Pachter, the National Symphony Orchestra cellist Steven Honigberg, the Shady Grove Adventist Hospital patron Farid Srour and General Wallace M.
