Altichiero da Zevio (c. 1330 – c. 1390)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Altichiero worked in Verona and Padua.
• Works by him survive in the church of Sant'Anastasia in Verona and in the Cappella di S Felice in the basilica of Sant'Antonio and the Oratorio di San Giorgio in Padua.
• Altichiero was probably born somewhere near Zevio.
• He became an important member of the della Scala household in Verona.
• Around 1364 painted a series of frescoes based upon Flavius Josephus's 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.

• The Florentine art historian Giorgio Vasari is the source of the tradition that Altichiero returned to Verona after working in Padua.
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