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Author: Gary M. Radke
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007-08-02
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0300126158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rich account of the giant bronze doors created by Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti--so exquisite that Michelangelo proclaimed them suitable to serve as the Gates of Paradise.
Author: Amy R. Bloch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-02-09
Total Pages: 874
ISBN-13: 131640465X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 the most intellectually engaged and well-read artists of his age, Ghiberti found inspiration in ancient and medieval texts, many of which he and his contacts in Florence's humanist community shared, read, and discussed. He was fascinated by the science of vision, by the functioning of nature, and, above all, by the origins and history of art. These unusually well-defined intellectual interests, reflected in his famous Commentaries, shaped his approach in the Gates. Through the selection, imaginative interpretation, and arrangement of biblical episodes, Ghiberti fashioned multi-textured narratives that explore the human condition and express his ideas on a range of social, political, artistic, and philosophical issues.
Author: Anna Maria Giusti
Publisher: Giunti Editore
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788809774285
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"[An] illustrated account of the history, importance, and painstaking restoration of Lorenz Ghiberti's "Gates of Paradise". After nearly thirty years of restoration, the gilt bronze doors that Lorenzo Ghiberti made for the Florence Baptistery between 1425 and 1452 are once again on show for the world to see. This masterpiece of 15th-century sculpture, which Michelangelo called the Gates of Paradise, has found a new home in the Museo dell'Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. This book presents the first images of the fully restored Gates, traces their long history, and offers a careful look at the Old Testament scenes on the bronze panels ..."--Publisher description.
Author: Richard Krautheimer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0691200572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 1 of 2. Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor and towering figure of the Renaissance, was the creator of the celebrated Bronze Doors of the Baptistery at Florence, a work that occupied him for twenty years and became known (at Michelangelo's suggestion, according to tradition) as the Doors of Paradise. Here Richard Krautheimer takes what Charles S. Seymour, Jr., describes as "a fascinating journey into the mind, career, and inventiveness of one of the indisputably outstanding sculptors of all the Western tradition." This one-volume edition includes an extensive new preface and bibliography by the author. Richard Krautheimer, Professor Emeritus of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, currently lives in Rome. He is the author of numerous works, including the Pelican Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture and Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308 (Princeton). Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology, 31. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Antonio Paolucci
Publisher: George Braziller Publishers
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKInstructive exposition and illustration of all three sets of doors at the baptistery, which were seminal in the development of Renaissance art. With excellent colour plates.
Author: Susan Jacoby
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-01-08
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0300137257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography that restores America's foremost 19th-century champion of reason and secularism to the still contested 21st-century public square.
Author: George Robinson
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is a publication that for once merits the description "a revelation", in which close-up photography records the powerful and moving imagery of a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture.
Author: Jack M. Greenstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-08-23
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 110710324X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces how four early Renaissance masters represented the Creation of Eve, which showed woman rising weightlessly from Adam's side at God's command.
Author: Carla Keyvanian
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-11-30
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9004307559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome 1200 – 1500, Carla Keyvanian offers a new interpretation of the urban development of Rome during three seminal centuries by focusing on the construction of public hospitals. These monumental charitable institutions were urban expressions of sovereignty. Keyvanian traces the political reasons for their emergence and their architectural type in Europe around 1200. In Rome, hospitals ballasted the corporate image of social elites, aided in settling and garrisoning vital sectors and were the hubs around which strategies aimed at territorial control revolved. When the strategies faltered, the institutions were rapidly abandoned. Hospitals in areas of enduring significance instead still function, bearing testimony to the influence of late medieval urban interventions on modern Rome.
Author: Amy R. Bloch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-31
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781108428842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifteenth-century Italy witnessed sweeping innovations in the art of sculpture. Sculptors rediscovered new types of images from classical antiquity and invented new ones, devised novel ways to finish surfaces, and pushed the limits of their materials to new expressive extremes. The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy surveys the sculptural production created by a range of artists throughout the peninsula. It offers a comprehensive overview of Italian sculpture during a century of intense creativity and development. Here, nineteen historians of Quattrocento Italian sculpture chart the many competing forces that led makers, patrons, and viewers to invest sculpture with such heightened importance in this time and place. Methodologically wide-ranging, the essays, specially commissioned for this volume, explore the vast range of techniques and media (stone, metal, wood, terracotta, and stucco) used to fashion works of sculpture. They also examine how viewers encountered those objects, discuss varying approaches to narrative, and ponder the increasing contemporary interest in the relationship between sculpture and history.
