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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bloch, Amy R., 1975- (Author)
Format:	Book
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. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Illustrated works. Ghiberti, Lorenzo, > 1378-1455. Bible. > Old Testament. Gates of paradise (Ghiberti, Lorenzo) HISTORY / Europe / General.
Online Access:	Cover image

Table of Contents:

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.