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Fig. 12 - JACOBELLO DEL FIORE: Christ on the mount of Olives, Fig. 13 - JACOBELLO DEL FIORE: The Lamentation,
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Corner might have transcribed the signature of the panel with The Blessed Pietro
erroneously, and that the author was more Gambacorta of Pisa thus becomes an
likely to be Francesco del Fiore.30 This is an important element in our reinvesting
unnecessary, indeed misleading, hypothesis, Jacobello with the entire corpus of the
also because we know that the priest Filippo Master of the Giovanelli Madonna.
had been chaplain of San Girolamo between
1422 and 1425, at which point Francesco eee
del Fiore had been dead for over ten years.31
Even disfigured by restoration, the fragment
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