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

• Main Author: Bloch, Amy R., 1975- (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• Subjects: Ghiberti, Lorenzo, > 1378-1455. > Gates of paradise.; Ghiberti, Lorenzo, > 1378-1455 > Criticism and interpretation.; Bible. > Old Testament > Illustrations.; Electronic books.
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"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...

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. The Adam and Eve panel: the birth of creativity; 2. The Cain and Abel panel: fashioning thought and fate; 3. The Noah panel: architecture and politics emerge; 4. The Abraham and Isaac panel: from the competition to the Gates of Paradise; 5. The Jacob and Esau panel: perspective, vision, and memory; 6. The Joseph panel: speech acts in the piazza; 7. The Moses panel: sculpting the drama of nature; 8. The Joshua panel: the fate of art; 9. The David panel: Ghiberti, tragedian; 10. The Solomon and Queen of Sheba panel: a portrait of Ghiberti's Florence.