Antonio Badile II

For a long time this painter was known only by a habit. In pictures made in Verona in the second half of the 15th century, a pot or a clump of carnations keeps turning up among the saints, red or pink, and so the unknown head of the workshop behind them was called the Master of the Carnation Bush. According to the Castelvecchio museum, his was the shop that won the most numerous and most important commissions in the city in those decades.

Today scholars tend to identify that master with Antonio Badile, son of the painter Giovanni Badile. He was born around 1424, and his name still appears in the records until about 1507. He is counted as the second Antonio because the family kept reusing its names. A later Antonio Badile, in the 16th century, would take the teenage Paolo Veronese into his workshop.