Studying the proportions between the body parts of Ghiberti’s St. Stephen, the article illustrates that Ghiberti used different ratios from the one he previously used in sculpture. This time he based his work not only on Cennini’s and Vitruvio’s…
Analysing the Gates of Paradise panels, the article describes how the perspective structure of the scenes is based on both traditional medieval procedures and Alberti’s contemporary suggestions. It seems that for landscapes the “rule-of-thumb” is…
The author analyses how the term “statua” changed from its use in classical latin texts to Renaissance treatises; focusing mainly on Ghiberti’s Commentary and Alberti’s De Statua
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