Attributed to Leonardo da Verona

Attributed to Leonardo da Verona is the label a museum uses when it believes a work is by this artist but has no signature or document to prove it. Leonardo Attavanti was the son of a Florentine, Desiderio Attavanti, and lived in Verona near the church of Santa Maria della Scala. In the documents of the late 15th century he appears as a painter. He coloured and gilded carved wooden statues, and on the throne of one Madonna he painted his name, Leonardus Veronensis, with the year 1492.

Whether he also carved is a newer question. A note found hidden in the throne of a Madonna at Tregnago, in the hills east of Verona, has been read as naming him as the maker of the statue itself. In 2026 the Castelvecchio museum described its wooden Saint James, long given to the carver Giovanni Zebellana, as recently attributed to Leonardo da Verona.