Altichiero
Oratorio di San Giorgio of Padua
Altichiero da Zevio (c. 1330 – c. 1390), also called Aldighieri da Zevio, was an
basilica of Sant'Antonio (Il Santo) and the Oratorio di San Giorgio
in Padua. His stature was compromised for a long time through his supposed collaboration with a certain Jacopo Avanzo or Avanzi, but study of the documents and historiography demonstrated Atichiero's authorship of the frescoes in both the Santo and the
Oratorio di San Giorgio.[1] It has been argued that the hand of an assistant (conceivably Jacopo Avanzo or Jacopo Avanzi, both Bolognese painters) can be seen in some early scenes in the Santo (Cappella di S Felice, originally the Cappella di S Giacomo) – although it was certainly Altichiero who was paid to decorate the chapel, and he received 792 ducats in the summer of 1379.[2]
Altichiero was probably born somewhere near
The Wars of the Jews at the della Scala palace of Sala del Podestà
.
The last record of Altichiero is a Paduan archival document of September 1384. At that time he was in Verona or about to go there.[3] The Florentine art historian Giorgio Vasari is the source of the tradition that Altichiero returned to Verona after working in Padua.[4]
References
- ^ Robin Simon, 'Altichiero versus Avanzo', Papers of the British School at Rome, 45 (1977), pp. 252–271.
- ^ Simon, pp. 252–253; John Richards, Altichiero. An Artist and his Patrons in the Italian Trecento, Cambridge 2000; Luca Baggio et al., eds, Altichiero da Zevio nell'Oratorio di San Giorgio: Il restauro degli affreschi, Padua, 1999.
- ^ Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia.pg 31
- ISBN 9781135948801.
Secondary Sources
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 234.
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