PSEUDO-JACOPINO di Francesco Bavosi

Italian painter or group of painters. Jacopino di Francesco Bavosi was a well-documented artist active 1360-83 whose work has not been satisfactorily identified. In 1365 Jacopino and his son Pietro, who was also a painter (active 1365-1383), were employed as junior partners of Andrea de' Bartoli on frescoes for the Visconti Palace at Pavia.

The first work of the principal artist of the earlier works of this group is a small Crucifixion (Musée du Petit Palais, AvignonGLOSSARYThe decision to move the Papacy here was made in August 1308 by Pope Clement V, who had been residing in France since 1305. The actual move was made in 1309. Six pontificates later, in 1377, the Papacy was brought back to Rome by Gregory XI. All the popes elected at Avignon were French, as were 113 of the 134 cardinals appointed during this time. Yet though the period has been called one of 'captivity' to France, the Avignonese residence was not one of uninterrupted truckling to French kings. The city was not on French territory: it belonged to the Angevin princes of Naples. 'Captivity', like Petrarch's 'unholy Babylon', which he likened to the harlot of the Apocalypse 'full of abominations and the filth of her fornication', was mainly a term of abuse directed at a Papacy that had acquired security enough to revive its legal and financial pretensions and to build lavishly and live well. Between 1100 and 1309 the popes had only spent 82 years in Rome. Avignon gave them a long breathing space to assemble the machinery and the values which characterized the Renaissance Papacy after its final resettlement in Rome.), in which strong Riminese influence is evident in the incised diapered gold background, close-set, vertical drapery folds and the olive greens and pinks. The lively gestures and distinctive dress of the protagonists are typical of the works produced c. 1320-40 .

The heart of the Pseudo-Jacopino corpus is made up of three polyptychs (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna), which are later in date, c. 1340-50. These show few Riminese traits and may be by a different hand from the previous group.

Pseudo-Jacopino is a prominent artist, considered to be co-founder with Vitale da Bologna of the school of Bologna in the fourteenth century.