ALTICHIERO da Zevio. — Painter, born in Zevio near Verona in 1320, died, perhaps in Verona, after 1390. After having worked, it seems, in Verona at the Scaliger palace, he carried out his major activity in Padua; however, among the paintings in the chapel of St. Felix and the Oratory of St. George in the basilica of the Santo in Padua, only part of the frescoes in the former are confidently attributed to him—the famous Crucifixion in the latter, where the rest is more readily seen as the work of his collaborator Avanzo. Indeed, lacking is that refined elegance of Gothic-Sienese derivation which characterizes all his works, from the tomb of Dotto (1370) to the tomb of F. Cavallo in Verona (c. 1390).
BIBL.: P. Schubring, s. V. in Thieme-Becker, I, pp. 351-52; L. Coletti, Studi sulla pittura del '300 a Padova, II: A. e Avanzo, in Riv. d'Arte, 13 (1931), pp. 303-63; S. Bettini, Giusto de' Membri e l'arte del '300, Padua 1944, p. 63; L. Coletti, I Primitivi: I Padani, III, Novara 1947.