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

Gothic painting Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century AD, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe, and much of Northern, Southern and ...

in Piedmont. He was active in his native Turin, in Geneva and in other localities of

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Biography

He was born into a family of painters, and his early life he moved frequently from Turin to Geneva, Thonon-les-Bains and other French localities, mostly working for Duke Amadeus VIII of Savoy, 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 Palazzo Madama might refer to: * Palazzo Madama, Rome * Palazzo Madama, Turin Palazzo Madama e Casaforte degli Acaja is a palace in Turin, Piedmont. It was the first Senate of the Kingdom of Italy, and takes its traditional name from the embelli ...

), 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 250px, Façade. The Abbey of Sant'Antonio di Ranverso is a religious complex at Buttigliera Alta, in the Metropolitan City of Turin, northern Italy. History The monastery (also known as preceptory) complex was founded in 1188 by Humbert III of Sav ...

(from c. 1410). Also attributed to Jaquerio are two tables with the ''Stories of St. Peter'' in the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica in Turin (c. 1410) and a miniature of the ''Crucifixion'' (c. 1420) in the

Aosta Cathedral Aosta Cathedral ( it, Cattedrale di Aosta; Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta e San Giovanni Battista; french: Cathédrale d'Aoste; Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption et Saint-Jean-le-Baptiste) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Aosta, in north ...

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.

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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