Master of Santa Anastasia

Over the main door of Sant'Anastasia, the great Dominican church of Verona, runs a carved stone frieze, and the anonymous sculptor who made it lent his name, by convention, to a whole group of statues. Between the 1950s and the 1960s the scholars Fernanda De Maffei and Luciano and Maria Teresa Cuppini gathered life-size saints and crucifixes from churches across the city around that frieze, and described one artistic personality working in the first half of the 14th century, while the Scaliger family ruled Verona.

Castelvecchio, which shows many of these figures in its sculpture galleries, is careful with the label and refers them to one master or to one workshop. A real name has been proposed as well. One scholar suggested Rigino d'Enrico, a master stonemason who appears as a witness at a ceremony in 1343, but no signed or documented work connects the two, and the idea remains a hypothesis.