![GJaquerio Salita al Calvario](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/GJaquerio_Salita_al_Calvario.jpg)
Giacomo Jaquerio ( 1375 – 1453) was an Italian medieval painter, one of the main exponents of
Gothic painting in
Piedmont
it, Piemontese
, population_note =
, population_blank1_title =
, population_blank1 =
, demographics_type1 =
, demographics1_footnotes =
, demographics1_title1 =
, demographics1_info1 =
, demographics1_title2 ...
. He was active in his native
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The ...
, in
Geneva
, neighboring_municipalities= Carouge, Chêne-Bougeries, Cologny, Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Pregny-Chambésy, Vernier, Veyrier
, website = https://www.geneve.ch/
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevr ...
and in other localities of
Savoy.
Biography
He was born into a family of painters, and his early life he moved frequently from Turin to Geneva,
Thonon-les-Bains
Thonon-les-Bains (; frp, Tonon), often simply referred to as Thonon, is a subprefecture of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. In 2018, the commune had a population of 35,241. Thonon-les-Bains is ...
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 the son of Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy and Bonne of Berry. He was a claimant to the papa ...
, 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 a 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.]
References
Sources
*
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jaquerio, Giacomo
1370s births
1435 deaths
Painters from Turin
14th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
15th-century Italian painters
Gothic painters