A textual source for Ghiberti's "Creation of Eve"

Title

A textual source for Ghiberti's "Creation of Eve"

Description

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 knowledge.

Date

1981

Relation

in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, n. 44, pag. 176

Type

Article

Language

English