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.

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Trenta Altar
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca


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


Trenta Altar
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca


Trenta Altar
1412-22
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Tomb slab of Lorenzo Trenta
1416
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca


Tomb slab of Isabetta Onesti
1416
Marble
San Frediano, Lucca



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



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