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QUERCIA, Jacopo della: Trenta Altar

🖼 Trenta Altar, 1412-22
Marble
Lucca, Italy

Marble reliefs depicting the Assumption frame a luminous Madonna in gilded splendor, arranged in architectural tiers. Quercia's masterwork revolutionized Tuscan sculpture through classical proportions and emotional intimacy, bridging Gothic and Renaissance sensibilities.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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