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[Pierre Dumont Himself]

All right, this one's closer to home: 

Matteo Giovanetti, 1344-45. Chapelle Saint-Martial, palais des papes d'Avignon.


Cloister of the Abbaye d'Abondance, before 1430. Master of the Abondance, now thought to be Giacomo Jaquerio, a Piemontese artist.

Giacomo Jaquerio, The Liberation of Saint Peter. Tempera on panel, 1405 - 1410, Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, Torino (panels probably coming from an altarpiece dedicated to Saint Peter in the Abbey of Novalesa)

Franco-Piedmontese painter, Le départ des Trois Doms, circa 1410-1420. Fresco painting. Romans-sur-Isère, Saint-Barnard, chapelle du Saint Sacrement (here, "dom" is an old form of address for monks). Simone Bonicatto accepts the theory that the painter was a member of Giacomo Jaquerio's workshop, and shows how the presence of the Papacy in Avignon attracted artists from the wider region, including the Piemonte. This particular artist went so far as to paint the city of Avignon instead of Rome in a later scene of the hagiography. The author also dismisses the hypothesis that the structures in our fresco actually belonged to the Romans bridge in the Late Middle Ages.
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Matteo Giovanetti

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