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Often appears with: theological virtues · the city and urban life · siena marble waterworks · religious persecution and toleration · jacopo della fonte
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“Wherefore, by reason of these works, which showed his excellence, and of the goodness and uprightness of his life, Jacopo was deservedly made chevalier by the Signoria of Siena, and, shortly afterwards, Warden of Works of the Duomo;” Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Arc · insight
Returning to Siena, Jacopo completes a richly adorned marble water project and becomes known as Jacopo della Fonte, carving the Virgin Mary, virtues, Old Testament scenes, and bronze images for S. Giovanni’s baptismal font.
so also there could be others said by me, but I will forbear, wishing to let everyone believe and think in his own fashion in the matter of this invention. After this, desiring to revisit his own country, Jacopo returned to Siena, where, on his arrival, there came to him, according to his desire, an occasion to leave therein some honourable memorial of himself. For the Signoria of Siena, having resolved to make a ve…