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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: Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkur
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2013-09-19
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1491707178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoors to Paradise: Poems for the Soul is Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkurs fourth book of poetry, and it follows his previously published trilogy on love. His poems are an invitation for our souls to discover what lies behind each door we encounter in life. The author experienced intense joy, peace, and freedom as he wrote these poemsemotions he hopes to share with all. The poems in this collection are arranged in chronological order and written in various rhyming styles. The poems were created as spontaneous outbursts of the soul, and in the reading of them, the author hopes that the readers heart will similarly open and receive the emotions they convey. Like doorways into the authors soul, Doors to Paradise: Poems for the Soul reflects the peace and contentment in his life now. The Muse Forever poised on the brink of a poem, patiently waiting for the Muse to rise or fall from the skies, the poets eye looks out onto the fields of paradise left vacant of her presence. He looks for her in his heart and sees that she indeed is the one thing he needs and wants; a window is flung open, a door beckons, the house of the soul welcomes him home ...
Author: V.C. Andrews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-11-24
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 1439187762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow a major Lifetime movie event, from New York Times bestselling author and literary phenomenon V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) comes the fourth installment in the classic story of the Casteel family saga. Stunned by tragedy, a young woman finds herself desperate and alone, and clinging to the frailest of dreams. Can Heaven’s daughter find the inner strength to survive? The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by the possessive Tony Tatterton, Annie pines for her lost family, but especially for Luke, her half-brother. Friend of her childhood, her fantasy prince, her loving confidante…without the warm glow of Luke’s love, she is lost in the shadows of despair. When Annie discovers Troy’s cottage hidden in Farthinggale’s woods, the mystery of her past deepens. And even as she yearns to see Luke again, her hopes and dreams are darkened by the sinister Casteel spell…treacherous, powerful, and evil.
Author: Brent Shibla
Publisher:
Published: 2020-09-24
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhere do we go when we die? 35-year old high school teacher Memphis Clarke cannot remember the last moments of his life and finds himself unable to explain where he is now. While he ventures through this unknown place, he'll search for answers, encountering familiar and unfamiliar faces as he reflects on his past in hopes of finding absolution.
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: Antonio Paolucci
Publisher: George Braziller Publishers
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
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: Perry Stone
Publisher: Charisma Media
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1616386533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Opening the Gates of Heaven, Perry Stone shows you how to release the flow of heaven's blessing through both God's revelation and the intervention of angelic messengers.
