Michele da Verona (Michele di Zenone) (1470, in Verona – 1536/1544) was an Italian painter of the

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/ref> He is different but a near contemporary of Zenone Veronese (1484 -1542).

Biography

He was a contemporary of

Paolo Moranda Cavazzola Paolo Morando Cavazzola (1486–1522) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in his hometown of Verona. He appears to have been a pupil of one of the brothers Morone, likely Francesco Morone. He painted in a style resembling tha ...

, and may have assisted him in the decorative work for San Bernardino in Verona. Inside the portal of San Stefano,

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, is a large ''Crucifixion'' signed by him in 1500, and formerly in the Refectory of San Giorgio in Verona. The same subject, dated by him in 1505, is in

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. In both pictures there is an imitation of the manner of Jacopo Bellini. In the church of Santa Chiara, Verona, are frescoes representing the ''Eternal, with Angels, Prophets, and the four Evangelists'', dated 1509. Frescoes of later dates exist in the churches of Vittoria Nuova and Sant' Anastasia; while in the church of Villa di Villa, near Este, is a ''Madonna and Child, between SS. John the Baptist, Lawrence, Andrew, and Peter'' dated 1523.

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* 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Verona Renaissance painters 1470 births 16th-century deaths {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub