Jacopo Torriti
Marriage at Cana
by Torritti.Jacopo Torriti or Turriti was an
Italian
painter and mosaic maker who lived in the 13th century.
He worked in the decoration especially in the apse of
Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Those in the Lateran were carried out in conjunction with the Franciscan friar, Jacopo Camerino. They were executed between the years 1287 and 1292, and though in imitation of the style of Cimabue
.
There are no written documents about his life. In 1291 he signed the apse mosaics in the basilica San Giovanni in Laterano in
St James the Great, St Antony and Giacomo Colonna (cardinal) (right side). The walls are decorated with scenes from the life of Mary. The apse of Santa Maria Maggiore is the most important surviving example of Roman mosaic art from the late Middle Ages
.
Torriti probably participated in the execution of some frescoes in the upper church of
Tre Fontane
close to Rome.
In France, a painting of Jacopo Torriti is exhibited at the Museum of Grenoble (Santa Lucia).
References
- Italycyberguide
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 581.
- Christ Child A mosaic by Jacopo Torriti in the Pushkin Art Museum, Moscow ("Christ Child")
- Petersen, Mark R., "Jacopo Torriti: Critical Study and Catalogue Raisonné" (Doctoral Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1989).
- Petersen, Mark R., "In Cor Descendit: The Motif of the Heavenly Jerusalem at San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome," Source: Notes in the History of Art (Vol. XI, No. 1, Fall 1991), pp. 1-5.
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