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Fig. 18 - JACOBELLO DEL FIORE: Christ between mourners, Kiev, Museum of Eastern and Western Art
and note that his initial activity, recreated as it It was indeed quite hard to believe that
were through the works hitherto grouped Jacobello could be hired full-time by the
under the heading ‘Master of the Giovanelli Venetian Signoria if his output before 1412
Madonna’, acquires renewed substance and were solely destined for the coastal region of
resonance. Thanks to the recognition of his the Marches, as seemed to be the case until
early phase we can better understand the now. One might add in this context that within
leading role he was beginning to play inVenice his Marchigian activity (recently given
at the end of the fourteenth century, soon exemplary treatment by Tiziana Franco), the
freeing himself of his father’s legal tutelage and painter’s relations with the city of Fermo must
style. The triptych formerly in the Venetian have begun well before the period around
church of San Gregorio, and perhaps the 1430, when he sent the church of San Pietro in
altarpiece with a central Crucifixion with Penna the great altarpiece with stories of its
Mourners now in a French private collection titular saint, now in Denver, Colorado.62
(for which De Marchi adduced a Venetian Indeed it seems to me that the dossal of Christ
provenance through the presence of Saint flanked by Mourners on a red ground, painted for
Quirinus among the saints flanking the the same church in Fermo and now in Kiev -
principal panel),61 both show that Jacobello’s (Fig.18),63 presupposes an earlier execution,
earliest work also included paintings for his given that Jacobello’s stylistic character here is
own city, and with an increasingly modern entirely consonant with the works labelled as
formal outlook. The novel elements of the by the Master of the Giovanelli Madonna. It is
second of these paintings have been clearly surprising that scholarship has not yet
emphasized by De Marchi. remarked on the same forceful, expressive
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