Jacobello del Fiore

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Jacobello da Fiore: The Archangel Gabriel (right wing of the Triptych of Justice ), 1421, Accademia , Venice

Jacobello del Fiore (also Jacometto del Fiore or de Flore ; detected from 1400 - 1439 ) was an Italian painter of the late Gothic period from the Venetian school .

Life

His father was the painter Francesco del Fiore (proven 1436-1534).

Jacobello was first mentioned in 1401 when he was working on the church of San Cassiano in Pesaro . In 1407 he created a triptych with the Madonna of Mercy for Montegranaro near Pesaro . In 1409 he also painted an altar for Pesaro, possibly the polyptych of the Church of San Francesco (today Museo Civico, Pesaro).

Madonna and Child , 57 × 39 cm, Museo Correr , Venice (around 1410?)

Between 1409 and 1415 he was probably one of the artists, along with Gentile da Fabriano , Michelino da Besozzo and Pisanello , who decorated the Sala del Maggior Consiglio of the Doge's Palace with frescoes , which were famous at the time , but which were destroyed in a fire in 1577 and then replaced by paintings by Tintoretto , Veronese et al. a. have been replaced. Jacobello was probably the "court painter" of the Doges. On January 11, 1412, his annual salary of 100 ducats was reduced by half for reasons of war. In 1415 he painted the famous lion of San Marco for the Doge's Palace .

One of his most famous works is the Justitia between the Archangels Michael and Gabriel (Accademia, Venice), which according to Ridolfi (1648) was originally dated November 23, 1421 and was intended for the Magistrato del Proprio (a civil court in Venice). The Justitia panel is richly decorated with golden pastiglia and influenced the work of other artists such as Michele Giambono .

Martyrdom of St. Lucia , Museo Civico, Fermo

The legends of St. Lucia for the Church of Santa Lucia in Fermo (today in the Pinacoteca Communale, Fermo). Jacobello's works that were verifiably created after 1421 no longer exist. The signature and date “1436” of the Madonna of Mercy in the Venice Accademia are incorrect.

Jacobello had an adopted son named Ercole del Fiore, who was also a painter and probably a collaborator in his workshop. He may be the author of some weaker works previously ascribed to Jacobello, including a 1432 Coronation of Mary (or Paradise ) for the Cathedral of Ceneda (now Accademia, Venice).

Jacobello del Fiore died in 1439.

plant

“Jacobello del Fiore has excellent merits for his time, and Vasari does him an injustice when he says that the artist put all the figures on tip-toe in the manner of the Greeks . He followed the direction based on natural truth and he is one of the few who at that time depicted life-size figures. One notices a striving for beauty and dignity and, where necessary, movement. In the meantime, after the use of time, he loved overloaded jewelry and gold-adorned clothes. "

- Georg Kaspar Nagler : 1836

Jacobello was one of the most important Venetian painters of his time, along with Niccolò di Pietro and Zanino di Pietro . His work is in the footsteps of Paolo Veneziano and Lorenzo Veneziano and in the transition from Byzantine models to the late Gothic. He also shows great narrative skills in his refined art, and he influenced Michele Giambono and Antonio Vivarini .

literature

  • Jacobello del Fiore , article in: Lexikon der Kunst , Vol. 6, Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen, p. 217 f
  • Colum Hourihane (Ed.): Jacobello del Fiore , in: The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture , Volume 2, pp. 447–449, online as a Google Book (English; viewed May 2, 2020)
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler: Fiore, Francesco del and Fiore, Jacobello or Jacometto del , in: Neues Allgemeine Künstler-Lexikon ... , Munich, 1836, p. 340, online as "Google Book" (viewed on March 28, 2020)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Colum Hourihane (ed.): Jacobello del Fiore , in: The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture , Volume 2, pp. 447–449, here 447; online as a Google Book (English); seen on May 2, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d Jacobello del Fiore , in: Lexikon der Kunst , Vol. 6, Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen, p. 217 f
  3. ↑ Georg Kaspar Nagler: Fiore, Francesco del and Fiore, Jacobello or Jacometto del , in: Neues Allgemeine Künstler-Lexikon ... , Munich, 1836, p. 340, online as a “Google Book” (viewed on May 2, 2020 )
  4. ↑ a b c d Georg Kaspar Nagler: Fiore, Jacobello or Jacometto del , in: Neues Allgemeine Künstler-Lexikon ... , Munich, 1836, p. 340, online as "Google Book" (viewed on March 28, 2020)
  5. ↑ Sandro Sponza: The Venetian Painting in the 14th Century , in: Giandomenico Romanelli (Ed.): Venice - Art and Architecture , Vol. 1, Könemann, Cologne, 1997, pp. 176–201, here: 196 ff
  6. ^ A b Sandro Sponza: The Venetian Painting in the 14th Century , in: Giandomenico Romanelli (Ed.): Venice - Art and Architecture , Vol. 1, Könemann, Cologne, 1997, pp. 176–201, here: 197
  7. ↑ Today it hangs in the Sala Grimani. See: The Doge's Palace of Venice , Musei Civici Veneziani / Mondadori Electa, 2004, p. 63 f.
  8. ^ A b c d e Colum Hourihane (ed.): Jacobello del Fiore , in: The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture , Volume 2, pp. 447–449, here 448; online as a Google Book (English); seen on May 2, 2020.

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SURNAME Jacobello del Fiore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacometto del Fiore; Jacometto de Flore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venetian painter of the late Gothic period
DATE OF BIRTH before 1400
DATE OF DEATH after 1439