The author suggests that the iconography for the Ghiberti’s second door should be interpreted as an ascension to Heaven. That is because the term “Gates of Paradise” does not derive from Michelangelo’s praise, but rather from an ancient tradition:…
Review of the pièce written and directed by L. Traft about the Baptistery doors to popularize the work of the early Renaissance artists, with an educational aim. The show is created for, produced and staged by high school and college students. For…
The reviewer highlights Murray’s and Kosegarten’s speeches for their importance and originality, while all the other studies do not diverge enough from what already has been written by Krautheimer. He also expresses a negative opinion on the…
Catalogue file of a Madonna stucco owned by the Arciconfraternita della Misericordia of Florence. The author review all the theories about the mass production of this kind of relief in Quattrocento Florentine art; listing all the similar items known…
According to G. Swarzenski, the bronze statuette of St. Christopher, preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, it is the work of art of someone associated with Ghiberti and Nanni di Banco, or it is based on an earlier lost model made by…
The article focuses on Buonaccorso Ghiberti’s Zibaldone, specifically on drawings, annotations and notes concerning production of bells, cannons and other weapons, and a couple of sketches of funerary equestrian monuments. Some possible references…
The article is a chronicle of the creation of Ghiberti’s St. Matthew statue through a detailed records analysis -transcripted in the appendix. Also, a comparison between Ghiberti’s bronze and roman statuary helped finding some possible references…
The author writes about a terracotta sketch of the left portion of the panel with Moses’ life from the Gates of Paradise he bought in Siena from the Basetti brothers (and that is nowadays preserved at the University of Princeton Museum). He believes…
In this brief article, the episode of the Creation of Eve in the panel from the Gates of Paradise is linked to Petrus Comestor’s text “Historia Scholastica”; proving that the panels’ iconography is probably owed to someone accostumed with patristic…
This article focuses on the translation of Vitruvius in Buonaccorso Ghiberti’s Zibaldone; studied through the means of diplomatic, paleography, linguistics and architecture history. The translation may be a transcription of another transcript…
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