Death of St Lucy

The Death of St. Lucy by Altichiero da Zevio, painted around 1381 in the Oratory of St. George in Padua, is part of one of the most important fresco cycles of the late Italian Gothic period. Altichiero, a Veronese painter working in Padua, is celebrated for his proto-naturalistic approach that anticipated developments of the early Renaissance, with careful attention to spatial depth, individualized physiognomies, and crowd compositions of remarkable narrative complexity.

Fresco on plaster wall. Altichiero demonstrates exceptional command of spatial recession and figure grouping, with naturalistic facial expressions and carefully observed architectural settings that push beyond conventional Trecento formulae toward a more empirical approach to pictorial space.