ALTICHIERO da Zevio
(b. ca. 1330, Zevio, d. ca. 1390, Verona)

St George Baptizes the King and His Family (detail)

1378-84
Fresco
Oratorio di San Giorgio, Padua

In this scene, most of those present are wearing traditional garb of the period; moreover, several of these figures are presumed to be portraits of contemporaries. Similarities wwith the portrait of Petrarch in a contemporary codex, the man dressed in dark red behind St George can be identified as Petrarch, while the figure beside him on his left may be his secretary and pupil, Lombardo della Seta.




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