From early references it is known that there were works by Jacometto in both Venice and Padua. He was, it seems, chiefly a miniaturist. He works are identified stylistically by comparison with two small portraits in Vaduz. An early report suggests that the figure in Antonello's painting of Saint Jerome either looked like Jacometto or had been repainted by him. There is no justification for believing this, but it shows that Jacometto's work was thought to be closely connected with Antonello.
Jacometto
active about 1472; died before 1498
Works by Jacometto
This is a rare surviving portrait by the Venetian painter and manuscript illuminator Jacometto, and it shows his delicate and refined painting style. The boy’s beauty is probably an idealised version of reality; portraits were thought to represent the subject’s soul as well as their facial featur...
Not many portraits by Jacometto survive but the National Gallery has two, including this one. The man’s costume tells us that he is a Venetian citizen. He’s painted in a style fashionable in late fifteenth-century Venice, which derives from Netherlandish painting: the three-quarter pose was new a...
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