Jacopo della Quercia
Birth name	Jacopo di Pietro d’Agnolo di Guarnieri
Born	1374 Quercia Grossa (Siena), Italy
Died	October 20, 1438 Siena, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Field	Sculpture
Movement	Early Renaissance
Works	The Tomb of Ilaria del Carretto

Jacopo della Quercia (c. 1374 – October 20, 1438) was an Italian sculptor of the Italian Renaissance, a contemporary of Brunelleschi, Ghiberti and Donatello. He is considered a precursor of Michelangelo.

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Here are multiple views of one of his best-known sculpture, The Fonte Gaia in the Piazza del campo of Siena.

Left side with Creation of Adam’	Middle section	Right side

Della Querica takes his name from the little town near Siena in which he was born.  During the Black Plague (c. 1350) that killed so many Europeans, people were desperate for an answer as to…