Giacomo Jaquerio ( 1375 – 1453) was an Italian medieval painter, one of the main exponents of Gothic painting in

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. He was active in his native

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, in

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and in other localities of

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Biography

He was born into a family of painters, and in his early life he moved frequently from Turin to Geneva,

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and other French localities, mostly working for Duke

Amadeus VIII of Savoy Amadeus VIII (4 September 1383 – 7 January 1451), nicknamed the Peaceful, was Count of Savoy from 1391 to 1416 and Duke of Savoy from 1416 to 1440. He was a claimant to the papacy from 1439 to 1449 as Felix VWhen numbering of the popes began t ...

, noble families and religious institutions. Starting from 1429 he lived in Turin. For the princes of Acaja, he frescoed the castle of Turin (the current Palazzo Madama), but his work there has been lost. His other works include fragments of frescoes with ''Musician Angels'' (c. 1410 – 1415) in the Maccabi Chapel of the Cathedral of Geneva, now in that city's Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, and a series of frescoes in the Preceptory of Sant'Antonio in Ranverso (from c. 1410). Also attributed to Jaquerio are two tables with the ''Stories of St. Peter'' in the

Museo Civico d'Arte Antica The Museo Civico d'Arte Antica is an art museum located in the Palazzo Madama in Turin, Italy. It has a renowned collection of paintings from the medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods. It reopened in 2006 after several years of restorations. ...

in Turin (c. 1410) and a miniature of the ''Crucifixion'' (c. 1420) in the Aosta Cathedral Museum.

Miniature

As usual in the pictorial workshops of that era, miniature works must have also been part of Jaquerio's production. He unanimously attributed a full-page Crucifixion (about 1420) in the missal of Bishop Oger Moriset conserved in the Treasure Museum of the Cathedral of Aosta.Scheda n.147 del catalogo della mostra ''Corti e Città. Arte del Quattrocento nelle Alpi occidentali'', op. cit.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jaquerio, Giacomo 1370s births 1435 deaths Painters from Turin 14th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 15th-century Italian painters Gothic painters