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QUERCIA, Jacopo della: Trenta Altar

🖼 Trenta Altar, 1412-22
Marble
Lucca, Italy

Marble relief panels frame gilded figures in Renaissance splendor, their graceful poses and intricate drapery carved with sculptural precision. Quercia's masterwork synthesized Gothic elegance with emerging humanist ideals, establishing him as a pivotal bridge between medieval and Renaissance sculpture.

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