Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise : humanism, history, and artistic philosophy in the Italian Renaissance /

"This book examines the heretofore unsuspected complexity of Lorenzo Ghiberti's sculpted representations of Old Testament narratives in his Gates of Paradise (1425-52), the second set of doors he made for the Florence Baptistery and a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture. One of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bloch, Amy R., 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Colección:Cambridge EBA Collection
Temas:
Ghiberti, Lorenzo, > 1378-1455. > Gates of paradise.
Ghiberti, Lorenzo, > 1378-1455 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ghiberti, Lorenzo, > 1378-1455
Bible. > Old Testament > Illustrations.
Bible. > Ancien Testament > Illustrations.
Bible. > Old Testament
Gates of paradise (Ghiberti, Lorenzo)
HISTORY > Europe > General.
ART > Sculpture & Installation.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Illustrated works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Adam and Eve panel: the birth of creativity
  • The Cain and Abel panel: fashioning thought and fate
  • The Noah panel: architecture and politics emerge
  • The Abraham and Isaac panel: the sacrifice from the competition to the Gates of Paradise
  • The Jacob and Esau panel: perspective, vision, and memory
  • The Joseph panel: speech acts in the Piazza
  • The Moses panel: sculpting the drama of nature
  • The Joshua panel: the fate of art
  • The David panel: Ghiberti, tragedian
  • The Solomon and Queen of Sheba panel: a portrait of Ghiberti's Florence.

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