MARTINO DA VERONA
(d. 1412, Verona)

Madonna and Child

1390s
Fresco
Cappella Cavalli, Sant'Anastasia, Verona

Martino received prestigious commissions from the Veronese political and cultural elite, such as the influential Cavalli family in whose chapel in Sant'Anastasia the hand of Martino is recognized in much of the decoration. He is credited with the Madonna and Child, donor and musician angels frescoed on the lunette of the wall tomb of Federico Cavalli, elected captain of the city by the rioters who rose up against the Visconti in 1390, bearing an inscription whose date is read "1392" or "1397".