Jacopo della Quercia
Jacopo della Quercia (* around 1374 or 1367 in Quercegrossa , municipality of Castelnuovo Berardenga near Siena , † October 20, 1438 in Siena) was an Italian sculptor of the early Renaissance . He is known as a pioneer of the Renaissance because of his education of the human body, which was trained in antiquity , and is considered the most important Sienese sculptor. Jacopo della Quercia worked mainly in Siena, Bologna and Lucca .
Life
Della Quercia, later also called della Fonte, was born as the son of the wood sculptor and goldsmith Piero di Angelo (also: Petro Agnolo, or Piero d'Angelo di Guarneri). He had at least one brother, Priam . Otherwise little is known about his life; besides his main places of work, stays in Florence , Milan , Venice and Verona are certain . Antonio Federighi was one of his students .
In 1401 he took part in the Florentine competition to design the north portal of the Baptistery of San Giovanni and was defeated by Lorenzo Ghiberti .
On behalf of the ruler of Lucca Paolo Guinigi, he created the sarcophagus for his wife Ilaria del Caretto, who died in 1405 . The putti used for the design on the outside are among the earliest examples of these figures since antiquity and are older than the more well-known Donatello's from the 1420s.
From 1425 he designed the reliefs on the main portal of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna.
One of his most important works was the design of the Fonte Gaia fountain in the Piazza del Campo in Siena. The figures were replaced by true copies by Tito Sarrocchi in the middle of the 19th century ; the originals are now in the Museum of Santa Maria della Scala in the Fienile room .
He was buried in the first cloister of the Church of Sant'Agostino in Siena.
Giorgio Vasari wrote a biography of della Quercia in the second volume of Le vite .
Major works
- High reliefs of the Fonte Gaia (1409–1419) on the Piazza del Campo in Siena
- Tomb of Ilaria del Carretto (1406) in Lucca Cathedral
- Baptistery of San Giovanni (from 1417)
- Reliefs on the main portal of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna (since 1425)
literature
- James Beck : Jacopo della Quercia. 2 volumes. Columbia University Press, New York NY et al. 1992, ISBN 0-231-07200-7 .
- Luca Bortolotti: JACOPO di Piero (Jacopo della Quercia). In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 62: Iacobiti-Labriola. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2004.
- Carl Cornelius : Jacopo della Quercia . Book printing of the orphanage, Halle / Saale 1896 ( archive.org - dissertation).
- Quercia, Jacopo . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 513-516 .
- Edward Fairbrother Strange: Della Quercia, Jacopo . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 7 : Constantine Pavlovich - Demidov . London 1910, p. 699 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
- Giorgio Vasari : Vita di Iacopo dalla Quercia, Scultor Sanese. In: Giorgio Vasari: Le vite dei più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architetti. Newton Compton Editori, Rome 2010, ISBN 978-88-541-1425-8 , pp. 274 ff.
- Giorgio Vasari: The life of Jacopo della Quercia, Niccolò Aretino, Nanni di Banco and Luca della Robbia. Newly translated into German by Victoria Lorini. Ed., Commented by introduced by Johannes Myssok. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8031-5049-3 .
- Adolfo Venturi : Jacopo della Quercia . In: Storia dell'arte italiana . Volume VI: La scultera, del quattrocento . Ulrico Hoepli, Milan 1908, p. 67 ff . (Italian, text archive - Internet Archive - with the reference that he was called "Jacopo delle Guerica" in old documents and only "della Querica" by Giorgio Vasari).
- Georg Nordensvan : Quercia [kve'rtja], Jacopo della . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 22 : Possession – Retzia . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1915, Sp. 758-760 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- List of works (selection) by Jacopo della Quercia of the Fondazione Zeri of the University of Bologna
- Siena
Individual evidence
- ↑ Luca Bortolotti: JACOPO di Piero (Jacopo della Quercia). In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 62. Rome 2004.
- ↑ Peter Anselm Riedl , Max Seidel (ed.): The churches of Siena. Volume 1,1 (Abbadia all'Arco – S. Biagio), Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7654-1941-9 , p. 54 (sixth grave in the first row).
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SURNAME | Jacopo della Quercia |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Piero, Jacopo di; Piero, Jacopo del maestro; Guerica, Jacopo della |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian sculptor of the early Renaissance |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1367 or around 1374 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Quercegrossa |
DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1438 |
Place of death | Siena |