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Filippo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapi (1377 – 15 April 1446), commonly known as Filippo Brunelleschi (/ ˌ b r uː n ə ˈ l ɛ s k i / BROO-nə-LESK-ee; Italian: [fiˈlippo brunelˈleski]) and also nicknamed Pippo by Leon Battista Alberti, [4] was an Italian architect, designer, goldsmith and sculptor.
Filippo Brunelleschi, The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401-2, gilded bronze relief, 45 x 38 cm, competition piece for the second bronze doors of the Baptistry San Giovanni, Florence, Bargello (1879, from the Medici-Granducal Coll., inv. Br 209). For some time it was mounted on the altar front of the Old Sacristy of San Lorenzo also designed by Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi: The Sacrifice of Isaac ; Artist: Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446) Alternative names: Filippo di ser Brunellesco Lapi. Description:
Lorenzo Ghiberti (UK: / ɡ ɪ ˈ b ɛər t i /, US: / ɡ iː ˈ-/, [1] [2] [3] Italian: [loˈrɛntso ɡiˈbɛrti]; 1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, a key figure in the Early Renaissance, best known as the creator of two sets of bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, the later one called by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise.
The inlays suggest an early phase of Brunelleschi's, leading up to the Renaissance. Saint Peter is dressed classically, like an ancient Roman statue, easily visible in Rome. His lean and tendinous wrists suggest the panel of the Sacrifice of Isaac, which is a Gothic relief. Comparing the head of Saint Peter with the following figures of the ...
There is a good selection of medieval sculpture. The museum has both the modelli of the finalists' designs for The Sacrifice of Isaac (Sacrificio di Isacco), for the contest for the second set of doors of the Florence Baptistery in 1400. That by Lorenzo Ghiberti won, with Filippo Brunelleschi's the runner-up. [4]
The competitors, of which there were seven young artists, were each to design a bronze panel of similar shape and size, representing the Sacrifice of Isaac. Two of the panels have survived, that by Lorenzo Ghiberti and that by Brunelleschi. Each panel shows some strongly classicising motifs indicating the direction that art and philosophy were ...
Among the most famous works of art employing the barbed quatrefoil are the bronze panels on the south doors of the Florence Baptistery (1330–36) by Andrea Pisano, the bronze panels of the north doors of the Florence Baptistery by Lorenzo Ghiberti, Filippo Brunelleschi's competition entry for the same doors (The Sacrifice of Isaac), as well as ...