Trenta Altar in Lucca (1412-22)
by Jacopo della QUERCIA

Lorenzo Trenta, a wealthy merchant from Lucca, contracted Jacopo in 1412 to design his family chapel in San Frediano, Lucca. Work on the Trenta Chapel continued concurrently with the Fonte Gaia over the next decade.

Jacopo's first work in the Trenta Chapel consisted of an intricately carved marble altar dedicated to the patron saints of the chapel: Richard, Jerome and Ursula. This is basically a conservative sacra conversazione with the Virgin and Child enthroned against a cloth of honour in a shallow central niche. To the viewer's left and right, standing in self-contained niches framed by pilasters, are Sts Ursula and Lawrence and Sts Jerome and Richard. All the niches are surmounted by steeply pitched gables. At the base is an elaborate historiated predella with scenes from the Lives of the Saints enframing a central Lamentation.

Preview Picture Data File Info Comment
Trenta Altar
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

2300*1533
True Color
285 Kb



Trenta Altar with tomb slabs
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

1400*2100
True Color
282 Kb



Trenta Altar
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

990*1300
True Color
234 Kb



Trenta Altar
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

1300*1149
True Color
278 Kb



Trenta Altar (detail)
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

2100*1057
True Color
263 Kb



Trenta Altar: Sts Ursula and Lawrence
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

898*1300
True Color
209 Kb



Trenta Altar: Virgin and Child
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

913*1300
True Color
212 Kb



Trenta Altar: Virgin and Child (detail)
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

1100*1100
True Color
167 Kb



Trenta Altar: Sts Jerome and Richard
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

911*1300
True Color
206 Kb



Trenta Altar: Martyrdom of St Ursula
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

1100*934
True Color
194 Kb



Trenta Altar: Martyrdom of St Lawrence
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

1100*762
True Color
165 Kb



Trenta Altar: Lamentation
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

1100*656
True Color
153 Kb



Trenta Altar: St Jerome in his Study
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

1100*795
True Color
173 Kb



Trenta Altar: Death of St Richard
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

1100*926
True Color
184 Kb



Tomb slab of Lorenzo Trenta
1416
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

1249*1300
True Color
231 Kb



Tomb slab of Isabetta Onesti
1416
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca

1234*1300
True Color
225 Kb




Works by Jacopo della QUERCIA
Tomb of Ilaria del Carretto in Lucca | Trenta Altar in Lucca
Fonte Gaia in Siena | Baptismal font in the Baptistery in Siena
Main portal of San Petronio, Bologna | Various works