Turone di Maxio

In 1356 a notary in Verona described a painter named Turone as the son of the late Maxius of Camenago, in the diocese of Milan, now living in Verona. That single line is the best evidence of where he came from. His dates of birth and death are unknown. He is recorded in the city until 1387 and was dead by 1393.

In those decades Turone ran a busy workshop. A Crucifixion over the side door of the church of San Fermo is dated 1363, and for the cathedral chapter he and his assistants illuminated part of a set of 17 choir books, three of which carry the date 1368. Scholars explain his solid, plainly modelled figures by an early training among the Lombard fresco painters who followed Giotto. Only one surviving work bears his signature, an altarpiece of 1360 now in the Castelvecchio museum.