Altichiero da Verona also called Aldighieri da Zevio, was an Italian

Italy

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 painter

Painting

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 of the Gothic style

Gothic art

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. A follower of Giotto

Giotto di Bondone

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, Altichiero is credited with founding the Veronese school. He worked in Verona and Padua

Padua

Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...

 — works by him survive in the church of Sant'Anastasia in Verona and in the basilica of Sant'Antonio and the Oratorio di San Giorgio in Padua (where the credit for the work has been generally shared with Jacopo d'Avanzi

Jacopo d'Avanzi

Jacopo d'Avanzi was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He is also known as Jacopo Avanzi or Jacopo de Avanzi, although apparently oftened confused with other artists, including Jacopo de' Bavozi or the Vicentine Avanzo.Born in either Padua or Bologna, he trained supposedly with Vitale...

, about whom little is known).
Altichiero was probably born somewhere near Zevio

Zevio

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. He became an important member of the della Scala

Scaliger

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's household, and around 1364 painted a series of fresco

Fresco

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es based upon Flavius Josephus's The Wars of the Jews

The Wars of the Jews

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at the della Scala palace of Sala del Podestà.

There are frescoes by him in the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua

Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua

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. In conjunction with D'Avanzo Veronese, he frescoed the chapel of St. James for which he was paid 792 ducats. The first seven frescoes on the life of St. James the Elder were by Altichiero.