Altichiero in the Fifteenth Century

Richards, John (2014) Altichiero in the Fifteenth Century. In: Venice and the Veneto during the Renaissance: the Legacy of Benjamin Kohl. Reti Medievali E-Book (21). Firenze University Press, Firenze, pp. 429-445. ISBN 978-88-6655-663-3

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Abstract

Altichiero was the dominant north Italian painter of the later Trecento. In Padua, in the 1370s and early 1380s, he worked for patrons close to Petrarch and his circle and perhaps in direct contact with the poet himself. By the time of the second edition of Vasari’s Vite (1568) the memory of Altichiero’s work had suffered significant occlusion, and Vasari’s account of him is little more than an appendix to his life of Carpaccio. Only since the later nineteenth century, and particularly in the last fifty or so years, has Altichiero’s reputation been restored. It is the purpose of this paper to examine aspects of that reputation throughout the century or so after the painter’s death (by April 1393).

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Nella sezione: "Society, Religion and Art".
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Middle Ages; Early Modern Times; 14th-15th century; Padua; Art; Painting; Patronage; Altichiero
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History
Depositing User:	dr Vincenzo De Luise
Date Deposited:	13 Apr 2019 14:16
Last Modified:	06 Oct 2024 13:13
URI:	http://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/5014

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