Jacometto Veneziano
Italian panel painter and book illuminator from Venice, active around 1472-1497. He died before September 10, 1497. A brilliant miniature painter, Jacometto was also outstanding at portraits. He was much influenced by the Sicilian painter Antonello da Messina, who worked in Venice in 1475–76, but Jacometto’s portraits have a crystalline clarity, enhanced by the black background. The distinctive hairstyle – a zazzera- was fashionable in Venice in the 1480s and 1490s.
Knowledge of the artistic activity of Jacometto is based almost exclusively on the notebooks of Marcantonio Michiel, who recorded a number of his works in the patrician houses of Venice and Padua in the first half of the 16th century.
In Pietro Bembo’s house Michiel saw a small picture with scenes from the life of a saint, and portraits of Bembo as a child of eleven and of his brother Carlo as a newborn baby in 1472; in the house of Francesco Zio Michiel saw four miniatures by Jacometto in a Book of Hours; in the house of Zuanantonio Venier he saw a small picture with animals painted in chiaroscuro; in the house of Antonio Pasqualino he saw a number of drawings; in the house of Gabriele Vendramin he saw a portrait painted (or drawn) in chiaroscuro, and a small book of vellum with pen drawings of animals and candelabra; and finally, in the house of Michele Contarini in 1543 the author saw ‘a little portrait of Messer Alvise Contarini …, who died some years ago; and on the same panel there is a portrait of a nun of San Secondo. On the cover of these portraits there is a small (?)deer in a landscape; and their leather case is decorated with foliage stamped with gold. This most perfect work is by the hand of Jacometto.’
Catalogus
New York, Pierpont Morgan Library
PML 21194 (voorheen: E.14.A) Aristoteles, Operea en Porphyrios, Liber quinque praedicabilium (vol. 1), Venetië, 1483 verluchting door hetzij Girolama da Cremona hetzij Jacometto Veneziano en werkplaats
literatuur:
- Alexander 1978, nrs. 17-18
- Walther 2001, p. 386-9
PML 21195 (voorheen: E.2.78B) Aristoteles, Operea en Porphyrios, Liber quinque praedicabilium (vol. 2), Venetië, 1483 verluchting door hetzij Girolama da Cremona hetzij Jacometto Veneziano en werkplaats, Antonio Maria da Villafora en Benedetto Bordone
literatuur:
- Alexander 1978, nrs. 17-18
- Walther 2001, p. 386-9
Literatuur
- Alexander 1978, nrs. 17-18
- Walther 2001, p. 386-389