The author tries to expand Ghiberti’s works list, beyond those reported in the Commentary or in some other contemporary records. He suggests that Ghiberti drew the project for Pietro Lenzi’s, Barduccio di Chierichino Barducci’s, Onofrio Strozzi’s,…
The article tends to diminish the importance usually given to Traversari as a patron of the arts, while recognizing his affinity with the literature world. As a consequence, Krautheimer’s theory -that Traversari was the one behind the Gates of…
This catalogue file is about a reliquary now preserved in Prato, but originally gifted to the Fiesole Cathedral in 1425. It is suggested that it was produced in Ghiberti’s atelier, just like the contemporary St. James’ Reliquary -Pistoia- and St.…
Restoration report about the Madonna stucco preserved in Villa la Quiete (Università degli Studi di Firenze); completed in 2019. Before then the stucco had been heavily repainted and underwent many alterations.
Studying four Madonna with Child preserved in Venice, the author reviews/ retraces their various attributions, highlighting the discrepancies in Bode’s and Krautheimer’s theory (claiming that the common prototype was made by Ghiberti) as well as in…
Transcript of the statement of Ghiberti’s properties (July 8th 1427; ASFi, Archivio delle Decime, Quartiere di San Giovanni, Gonfalone Chiave), of his son Vittorio’s properties, of the profit and loss book for the Baptistery doors, of Ghiberti’s…
This is the transcript of Ghiberti's First Commentary by Leopoldo Cicognara, who added a brief note at the end. In the note he explains that he didn't published the transcript of the Second Commentary because it is even more obscure than the First…
Brief study about the Madonna stucco preserved in Villa la Quiete (Università degli Studi di Firenze) attempting to retraces the history of the work of art. In the same volume there is the restoration report.
Transcript from a manuscript written in 1456 about the most famous people of that time. Among the sculptors there is “Rentius florentino”, Ghiberti, who carved the Baptistery doors and the St. Stephen statue at Orsanmichele.
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