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Friday
May222015

"Jacopo della Fonte”

DateFriday, May 22, 2015 at 8:00AM

Jacopo della Quercia - Acca Larentia - 1414-19 - Marble, height 162 cm - Palazzo Pubblico, Siena (click photo for larger image)Jacopo della Quercia (1374-1448) was one of the most original Italian sculptors of the early 15th century. His best works give a sense of depth and also bear the marks of Hellenistic sculpture. Jacopo was a mysterious and ambivalent artist, but he carried Sienese sculpture to its height and influenced subsequent Sienese painters, as well as the young Michelangelo. 

The figure of Acca Larentia derives from a Roman Venus and has Jacopo's characteristic fleshiness and heavy drapery. The group is psychologically integrated, for as she holds one of the chubby boys who pushes at her breast, the other jumps up to attract her attention. She looks at him with almond-shaped eyes and a smile that suggests life. So successful was the fountain that the sculptor earned the nickname "Jacopo della Fonte".

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