# Wisdom [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [QUERCIA, Jacopo della]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary The interior of the walls of the Fonte Gaia is decorated with shallow niches containing large-scale figures in high relief of the Virgin and Child, flanked by Angels and by the Theological and Cardinal Virtues and Wisdom, plus scenes of the Creation of Adam and the Expulsion from the Garden and at the corners, as originally planned, the Rhea Silvia and the Acca Larentia. The heavy, decorative drapery of the Virtues echoes the reliefs of the Liberal Arts formerly decorating the base of the Cappella di Piazza immediately across the Campo from the Fonte Gaia. The picture shows Wisdom. ## Related artworks - [Acca Larentia]() - [Acca Larentia]() - [Acca Larentia]() - [Angel of the Annunciation]() - [Angel of the Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Baptismal font: Annunciation to Zacharias]() - [Baptismal font: Annunciation to Zacharias]() - [Baptismal font: Prophet]() - [Baptismal font: Prophet]() - [Baptismal font: Prophet]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()