Fra Giovanni da Verona: A Polymath of Padua’s Renaissance Fra Giovanni da Verona (c. 1457 – 1525) stands as a remarkable figure in the artistic landscape of late fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Italy, a testament to the breadth of talent nurtured within the Olivetan monastic orders. More than simply a painter or sculptor, he was a multifaceted artist—a monk, architect, miniature master, woodcarver, and even an architectural theo…