Jacopo della Quercia belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Jacopo della Quercia as Italian artist (1374-1438).
Jacopo della Quercia was born at Quercegrossa in 1374. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Workshops rather than individuals produced most work in this period, and attribution is often a modern reconstruction.
He worked as sculptor.
His recorded movement is renaissance.
Among his best-known works are Sculptures from Fonte Gaia - Acca Larentia, Creation of Adam and Anghiari Madonna. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Jacopo della Quercia died in 1438, aged 64. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Sculptures from Fonte Gaia - Acca Larentia
- Notable work: Creation of Adam
- Notable work: Anghiari Madonna
- Notable work: Madonna and Child
- Movement: Renaissance
