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Fig. 25, 26
JACOBELLO DEL FIORE: Stories from the Life of St. Lucy, Fermo, Pinacoteca Civica
youth. Indeed the stern expression of yearning devotion to a past which thus
Jacobello’s figures and the metallic reveals its vivid, almost irreplaceable
appearance of his surfaces, beyond any power’ [‘struggentissima pietà per un
comparison with the sweetness of sentiment passato che dimostra così il suo vivo e quasi
and illusionistic softness of Gentile’s insostituibile potere’].70 Refusing, even in
draperies, would now define that margin of the most descriptive passages of the
independence from his colleague. Half a enchanting Stories of Saint Lucy in Fermo -
century ago Carlo Volpe called this ‘a ( Figs. 25, 26), the ‘empirical joy’ [‘gioia
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