FILIPPO DA VERONA
(active 1509-1522)

Biography

Italian painter who painted in a style recalling Cima da Conegliano. He is the author of a Virgin and Child in the Academy of Arts in Turin. In 1510, he participated in the fresco decoration of the Sala Capitolare in the Scuola del Santo in Padua. The scene St Anthony Appears to the Blessed Luca Belludi is his first documentable and securely dated painting.

He was employed at the Church of the Eremitani in Padua, where he painted the Glory of the Virgin, with Angels and Saints in 1511; having previously in 1509 produced a Virgin and Child, with SS. Felix and Catherine for the Basilica of St Anthony of Padua. The church of San Niccolò in Fabriano has a Madonna between SS. Peter and Nicholas of Bari dated 1514.