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Jacopo della Quercia

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/ ˈjaːkopo ˌdela ˈkwɛrtʃa /

noun

  1. ?1374–1438, Italian Renaissance sculptor: best known for his marble reliefs of scenes from Genesis around the portal of S. Petronio, Bologna (1425–35)

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Huddled in a corner were resin replicas of three marble Biblical figures by the Renaissance master Jacopo della Quercia.

From The New Yorker Nov. 20, 2016

The figure of the bear is again represented by Jacopo della Quercia, on the north door of the Cathedral of Florence.

From Mornings in Florence by John Ruskin

The excellent bust of the Baptist, 383, by Desiderio da Settignano is officially assigned to Donatello, and the coloured Virgin and Child in wood to the Sienese Jacopo della Quercia.

From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball

Given now to Nanni di Banco, a sculptor of the end of the fourteenth century, whom Vasari tells us was the pupil of Donatello, it long passed as the work of Jacopo della Quercia.

From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton

Jacopo della Quercia always retained his own massive style.

From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford

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