Lorenzo Ghiberti / by Richard Krautheimer in collaboration with Trude Krautheimer-Hess
1982, 1st Princeton Paperback edition. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #404518
Physical description; 460 pp., [176] pages of plates : ill. ; 29 cm. Contents; Preface -- Life and renown. Ghiberti's biography ; Ghiberti's fame -- The beginnings. The competition ; The competition reliefs : Ghiberti and Brunelleschi ; Ghiberti's origins -- The bronzes at Or San Michele. Saint John and the international style ; Saint Matthew and Saint Stephen -- The north door of the Baptistery. Documents and progress or work ; The quatrefoils and heads -- The new style. Pictorial relief -- The gates of Paradise. Documents and progress of work ; The program ; The panels ; The late workshop ; Ghiberti and the Trecento -- Renaissance problems. Linear perspective ; Ghiberti architetto ; Ghiberti and antiquity ; Humanists and artists ; Ghiberti the writer ; Ghiberti and Alberti -- Appendices. Appendix A. Handlist of antiques ; Appendix B. The Olympiads ; Appendix C. Sources. 1. Analysis of documents, 2. Transcript of documents, 3. Digest of documents. Subjects; Ghiberti, Lorenzo 1378-1455. Gates of paradise. Criticism and interpretation. Bronze doors Italy Florence. Sculptors ; Biography Italy. Renaissance.
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