Chiesa dei Santi Nazaro e Celso

This guide to the Chiesa dei Santi Nazaro e Celso in Verona centers on the chapel of San Biagio, where a young painter named Giovanni Maria Falconetto won an unlikely commission in 1497 among far more established names, including Domenico and Francesco Morone, Paolo Morando, Francesco Bonsignori, and Girolamo dai Libri. It follows what he did about it: pressing his own name into the plaster beneath his figure of Saint Luke, in capital letters made to look like ancient Roman inscriptions. You'll hear about the Roman ruins that shaped the painted architecture overhead. Look up at the fake cornices and vaults he conjured with a brush.