Jacopo della Quercia
(c. 1374 - October 20, 1438) |
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Jacopo della Quercia |
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Male |
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Quercia Grossa (Siena), Italy |
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Italian |
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c. 1374 |
| Death: |
October 20, 1438 |
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Early Renaissance |
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Sculpture
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Biography
| Sienese sculptor. Was in 1401 one of the contestants in the competition for the second bronze doors of the bapistry, Florence, though his trial relief has not survived. His earliest extant recorded work is a Virgin and Child for Ferrara Cathedral. Better known is the Tomb of Iliara del Caretto in Lucca Cathedral; an effigy, Burgundian in type, celebrated for its haunting beauty. Its mixture of Gothic and Classical idioms is typical of Queria. His first major work in Siena is the Fonte Gaia, an architectural/sculptural fountain complex facing the Town Hall. He also worked on the bronze relief Zacharias in the Temple, marble upper section of the Siena bapistry font. Quercia's most accomplished work is the central doorway of S. Petronio, Bologna, which was left incomplete at the time of his death. |
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