Jacobello del Fiore (c. 1370 – 1439)

• Was a Venetian painter.
• His early work is in the Late Gothic style.
• During his lifetime, he received commissions on the Adriatic coast and in Venice.
• Jacobello del Fiore is likely to have been born around 1375, since by the time of his marriage in 1394, he was still under the tutelage of his father, Francesco del Fiore.

• Jacobello's father, Francesco, was a painter himself.

• The year 1401 marks a transition in Jacobello's career from a more archaic, gothic style, to a more modern style concerned with line, as seen in the Giovaneli Madonna and Crucifixion with Mourners and Saints in a French private collection.

• In 1407 Jacobello painted a triptych of the Virgin of Mercy with Saints James and Anthony Abbot now residing in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Pesaro.

• In 1408 Jacobello is believed to have completed another Crucifixion scene with the aid of woodcarver Antonio di Bonvesin for a parish church in Casteldimezzo in Pesaro.

• As proof of his prominence, in 1412 the Venetian signory employed Jacobello with an annual salary of one hundred ducats.

• In 1433 Jacobello erected a tomb in dedication to his father Francesco in San Giovanni e Paolo.

• During the 1430s he is believed to have mentored a young Carlo Crivelli.

• Jacobello's adopted son, Ercole del Fiore, appears in a 1461 record stating his vocation as a painter. 

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