Turone da Verona

He was born in Milan or Verona, the information on his human and artistic life is very limited and all in the Veronese area.

[note 3] A document dated 1356 mentions it as "Turonem quondam domini Maxii de Camenago diocexis Mediolanensis et nunc habitantem Verone",[note 4] indicating its Lombard origin and its recent move to the city;[2] he is then registered as a witness in an act of 1360 relating to the convent of Santa Maria della Scala,[3] and in another of 1387 no longer available,[3] while from 1393 he is already dead.

[3] In Turone's painting we can see an example of a Venetian-Padan reworking of the Giotto lesson, which in Veneto above all – but only marginally in Venice – had a strong impact thanks to the extraordinary works of the Tuscan Master (the Scrovegni Chapel and those lost in the Basilica del Santo and the Palazzo della Ragione).

A reworking that adds greater excitement and dramatization of the actions and a more decisive use of color to Giotto's perspective and volume.

Among the most significant works attributed to Turone is the fresco of a crucifixion on the counter-façade of the church of San Fermo Maggiore in Verona.