Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise humanism, history, and artistic philosophy in the Italian Renaissance
"This book examines the heretofore unsuspected complexity of Lorenzo Ghiberti's sculpted representations of Old Testament narratives in his Gates of Paradise (1425-52), the second set of doors he made for the Florence Baptistery and a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture. One of th...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press
2016.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Cambridge EBA Collection. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45616024*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Adam and Eve panel: the birth of creativity
- The Cain and Abel panel: fashioning thought and fate
- The Noah panel: architecture and politics emerge
- The Abraham and Isaac panel: the sacrifice from the competition to the Gates of Paradise
- The Jacob and Esau panel: perspective, vision, and memory
- The Joseph panel: speech acts in the Piazza
- The Moses panel: sculpting the drama of nature
- The Joshua panel: the fate of art
- The David panel: Ghiberti, tragedian
- The Solomon and Queen of Sheba panel: a portrait of Ghiberti's Florence.
