Jacopino da Reggio

Italian book illuminator, working in Bologna at the end of the 13th century. The Decretals in Vatican City contain his signature.

If this signature is accepted as belonging not to a stationer who had the manuscript illustrated, but to the principal illuminator who organized the work and was himself responsible for the most important decoration, then Jacopino da Reggio can be identified as the most important Bolognese master working in the Byzantine style at the end of the 13th century, and the illuminator of the Bible of Clement VII (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. lat. 18).

*Parijs, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms Smith-Lesouëf 21, f. 16r*

Compared with the equally Byzantine-influenced but more lively narrative style of the Girona Master who illuminated the Bible of Charles V (Girona, Biblioteca Capitolare), Jacopino da Reggio evolved an extremely courtly style in which Byzantine elements are combined with decorative features derived from Limoges enamels and others that suggest knowledge of the Isaac Master at Assisi. His illustrations tend to be included as small pictures, rather than being in a freer relationship with the rubrics and script. The stylistic tendencies of his collaborators suggest that the Paris Bible, another in London (British Library, Add. MS. 18720), the Book of Psalms in Bible D.II.3 (Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria) and probably Aristotle’s Opera (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. lat. 6297) all precede Jacopino’s work on the Decretals (MS. Vat. lat. 1375).

*Parijs, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms Smith-Lesouëf 21, f. 13v*

Catalogus

Londen, British Library

Ms add 18720 Bijbel, Bologna, eind 13^e eeuw

Parijs, Bibliothèque Nationale

Ms latin 18 Bijbel van Clemens VII, Bologna, eind 13^e eeuw

literatuur:

Parijs 1984, nr. 31, kleurpl. VII

Ms latin 4476 Accursius, Infortiatum , cum glossis Accursii , Bologna, eind 13^e eeuw, verluchting door Jacopino da Reggio en de Meester van Gerona

Ms latin 6297 Aristoteles, Opera, Bologna, eind 13^e eeuw

Ms Smith-Lesouëf 21 Psalter, Bologna, ca 1300-1310

*Parijs, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms Smith-Lesouëf 21, f. 23v*

Turijn, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria

Ms D.II.3 Bijbel, verluchting van het Boek der Psalmen door Jacopino da Reggio

Vaticaanstad, Biblioteca Apostolica

Ms pal lat 629 Gregorius IX, Decretales, Bologna, ca 1300-1310 verluchting door Jacopino da Reggio en anderen

Ms vat lat 1375 Gregorius IX, Decretales, Bologna, eind 13^e eeuw verluchting door Jacopino da Reggio en anderen

Literatuur

Parijs 1984, nr. 31, kleurpl. VII