Jacopo da Verona (1355–1442/1443) was an Italian painter. As his name suggests, he was born in

Verona Verona ( ; ; or ) is a city on the Adige, River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 255,131 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region, and is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and in Northeast Italy, nor ...

. His works include the frescoes of the

San Michele Oratory The San Michele Oratory or Oratory of San Michele () is an oratory chapel in Padova, Italy. The interior is painted with a cycle of frescoes on the life of the Virgin Mary by Jacopo da Verona. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site ''Padu ...

in Padua. Little is known about Jacopo da Verona's life. The first mention of him is in a notarial deed dated 1833, which records an investiture of land in his favour. He is referred to as "''magistrum Jacopum pictorem''" (Master Jacopo the painter), and the document indicates he lived in the Contrada of Santa Cecilia in Verona. There are no certain records about his training as a painter.

Artistic Production

Jacopo da Verona's only certain work is the fresco cycle in the Bovi Chapel, now part of the San Michele Oratory. The artist's name and the completion year, 1397, are inscribed on a dedicatory plaque inside the chapel. In addition to the frescoes in the Oratory of San Michele, Jacopo da Verona is credited with other works, mainly in the Veneto region.

Pietro Toesca Giovanni Pietro Toesca (12 July 1877 - 9 March 1962) was an Italian academic and art historian, notable as one of the most important historians of medieval to 20th century art. His ''La pittura e la miniatura nella Lombardia fino alla metà del Qu ...

, in the 1927 edition of ''Storia dell'arte italiana'', attributes to Jacopo the Polyptych in the Church of Boi di Caprino (Verona, Museo di Castelvecchio) and fresco fragments on the tomb of Ilario Sanguinazzi in one of the chapels in the

church of the Eremitani The Church of the Eremitani (), or Church of the Hermits, is a former-Augustinians, Augustinian, 13th-century Gothic architecture, Gothic-style church in Padua, region of the Veneto, Italy. It is also now notable for being adjacent to the Cappella ...

in Padua.

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Painters from Verona 14th-century Italian painters 15th-century Italian painters 1355 births 1440s deaths {{Italy-artist-stub