Jacopo di Paolo (1345 approx. - 1430 approx.) was an Italian painter and miniaturist active in
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Biography
Jacopo di Paolo at the beginning of his career was active at Mezzaratta Church, where he frescoed two Stories of Moses. These pieces were probably based on ideas of
Jacopo Avanzi
Jacopo d'Avanzi (after 1350s – 1416) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He is also known as ''Jacopo Avanzi'' or ''Jacopo de Avanzi'', although apparently often confused with other artists, including ''Jacopo de' Bavozi'' and the ...
and have a clear influence of the new-giottism and late Gothic of
Giovanni da Modena. The strong sense of plasticity in the figures and the rationality of the space system, evident in some works exposed such as the St.
John the Baptist
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, are the result of a different and new reflexion on Giotto's experience. Even though there is a generational gap between
Simone and Jacopo and they both were capable of obtaining important recognition in Bologna, it was Jacopo that also received prestige within the public arena.
The activity of Jacopo was very versatile, as he was engaged at various levels within the fervent political and cultural life of the city. He worked in several prestigious decorative undertakings of the city, sometimes in collaboration with sculptors, such as in the “yard” of San Petronio, launched in 1390. For this he provided the drawings for the sculptures of the base of the façade, the project for the windows, and the wooden altarpiece in the chapel of the Magi by Bartolomeo Bolognini.
[Text published by the curators of Bologna Medieval Museum.]
Bibliography
About Jacopo di Paolo
* ''Miniatori e pittori a Bologna. Documenti del secolo XV'', a cura di F. Filippini, Roma, 1968.
* ''Pittura bolognese del '300. Scritti di Francesco Arcangeli'', a cura di A. Conti, Bologna, 1978 .
* ''Per una storia della miniatura a Bologna tra Tre e Quattrocento. Appunti e considerazioni, in Il tramonto del Medioevo a Bologna. Il cantiere di S. Petronio'', cura di R. D'Amico e R. Grandi, Bologna, 1987.
* ''Il polittico Bolognini'', a cura di R. D'Amico e R. Grandi.
* ''Vitale da Bologna e la sua bottega nella chiesa di S. Apollonia a Mezzaratta'', a cura di S. Skerl e Del Conte, Bologna 1993.
* ''Haec sunt statuta. Le corporazioni medioevali nelle miniature bolognesi'', a cura di M. Medica, Modena, 1999.
* ''Un S. Giovanni Battista di J. di P.,'' in ''Due santi e una musa…'', a cura di M. Medica, Bologna, 2001.
References
External links
Biografia su treccani.itNational Art Gallery of BolognaBasilica di San PetronioMusei Civici di Arte Antica
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14th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
15th-century Italian painters
Painters from Bologna
Manuscript illuminators