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Altichiero
(active 1372-84)
Altichiero
(active 1372-84).
Italian painter. He probably came from Zevio near Verona and is sometimes
considered to be the founder of the Veronese School, although the only
surviving example of his work in that town is a fresco in Sta Anastasia.
Most of his surviving work is in Padua, where he had a hand in fresco cycles
in the Basilica of St Anthony (between 1372 and 1379) and in the Oratory
of St George (between 1377 and 1384), in the latter of which he
collaborated with an artist called Avanzo, who is otherwise unknown and
whose contribution to the work is uncertain. Altichiero's gravity and
the solidity and voluminousness of his figures clearly reveal his debt to
Giotto's
frescos in the Arena Chapel of Padua. But his pageant-like scenes with
their elaborate architectural views express the taste of the late 14th
century for
Gothic
intricacy, while his naturalism in the study of plants and animals formed
the point of departure for a new style which is reflected in Pisanello.
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