Code art.: 4166
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Jacopo di Pietro d'Agnolo di Guarnieri known as Jacopo della Quercia (Siena, c. 1374 - Siena, 21 October 1438) was an Italian sculptor.
He was born in Siena, in the eighth decade of the fourteenth century, the eldest son of Piero d'Angelo di Guarneri and Maddalena, known as Lena, who on 21 April. 1370 had given her future husband 180 lire as a dowry (Beck, p. 334).
He attempted a synthesis between the gothic sculpture of Giovanni Pisano and the Burgundian one, especially of Claus Sluter on the one hand, with the classicism on the other, assimilated through the new discoveries of the Florentine Renaissance: his greatest interest turned to the figures, rendered monumental and traversed by an overwhelming vitality. His work did not find immediate followers. Stylistically it was a block, which was later understood only by Michelangelo.