An entire chapter of the volume is about the Gates of Paradise, with an historical and stylistc analysis. The author starts with Leonardo Bruni’s first concept for the door, with 28 panels, and gets to the final 10 panels structure through the…
Transcription of a lesson held by Courajod about Jacopo della Quercia and Lorenzo Ghiberti. Courajod wanted to demonstrate that the origins of the Renaissance are to be found in the Flemish Naturalism at first, and then in the interest and study of…
The author writes about Lorenzo Ghiberti’s life and artistic career stressing the pictorial quality of his works, to the point that he believes that Ghiberti should be regarded as a goldsmith and a painter rather than as a sculptor. As a…
This short text recounts the episode of the competition in 1401 for the second door for the Baptistery in Florence and reports the description of the completed work made by Ghiberti. Moreover, it’s recorded that the King of France gifted the School…
The volume is a collection of records concerning Renaissance art in Italy. Regarding Lorenzo Ghiberti, the author transcribed the Decreto di legittimazione (decree of validation) after Ghiberti’s election to the council of the Dodici Buonuomini (that…
The article examines the importance of contemporary sculpture and architecture for Fra Angelico’s paintings. It is especially highlighted Ghiberti’s fundamental role in this matter, direct, during the partnership for the Tabernacolo dei Linaioli, and…
With this essay the author wanted to publish the tax declarations (Portate al Catasto) of the most important Quattrocento artists and their subscriptions to the Florentine guilds. Lorenzo Ghiberti’s tax declarations for the years 1427, 1430, 1433,…
After the discovery of a few punchings related to the fiorino design on the right half of the Gates of Paradise, the story behind the competition between Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Bernardo Cennini, and Lorenzo Ghiberti for the appointment to the…
During the years when the third door of the Baptistery made by Lorenzo Ghiberti between 1425 and 1452 , was restored, many marks impressed on the back of the frame were been found. The marks were identified as parts of the Florentine coin: the…
The article illustrates a few late Quattrocento albums concerning classical buildings in Rome; one of these album is Buonaccorso Ghiberti’s Zibaldone. After a comparison between the albums and between them and the architecture representation in…
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