Case dei Mazzanti

This guide to Case dei Mazzanti on Piazza Erbe in Verona begins in spring 2022, with a restorer at work removing decades of soot from a fresco giant overhead. It reaches back to a fire that swept the buildings in the 1980s, blackening frescoes painted in the early 1530s by Alberto Cavalli, a pupil of Giulio Romano, showing giants and allegorical figures like Prudence, Envy and Ignorance. You'll hear about the eighteen-month investigation architects Ferdinando Forlati and Andrea Aloisi led to find what still survived beneath the grime. Look up at the facade above the square as you listen.