Lorenzo Ghiberti / by Richard Krautheimer in collaboration with Trude Krautheimer-Hess. Volume II
1970, 2nd edition. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #405994
ISBN: 0691038201
Physical description; 2 v., 457 p., 137 plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 29cm. Notes; Previous ed., 1956. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Ghiberti, Lorenzo 1378-1455. Gates of paradise. Ghiberti, Lorenzo 1378-1455 Criticism and interpretation. Battistero di San Giovanni (Florence, Italy). Bronze doors Italy Florence. Sculptors ; Biography Italy. Sculpture, Renaissance Italy. Sculptors Italy Biography. Sculpture. Sculpture Italy Florence. Art, Renaissance Italy Florence. Art, Italian. Artists Italy. Sculpture, Italian 14th-15th century. Bronze doors. Italy. Art. Renaissance. Sculpture. Renaissance. Artists. Ghilberti. Sculpture. Middle Ages.
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