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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.
On April 29, 1424, after Ghiberti had received a total fee of 22,000 florins (the information is from Ghiberti himself), the doors were placed on the east side, facing Santa Maria del Fiore, possibly causing the previous Pisano door to be moved to the south; [3] as is known it was later moved to the north side in 1452 to make way for the Gate ...
The eye goes first to scenes of Christ’s birth, rising to his baptism and his miracles, until reaching the culminating scenes of his crucifixion and resurrection in the highest register. George Robinson writes that “Ghiberti’s Christ is a dignified, resigned, almost aloof Messiah, whose attitude and behavior have consistently an overtone ...
Lorenzo Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of Isaac, gilded bronze relief, 1401-2, 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 203)
The Sacrifice of Isaac is the title of two paintings from c. 1598 - 1603 depicting the sacrifice of Isaac.The paintings could be painted by the Italian master Caravaggio (1571–1610) but there is also strong evidence that they may have been the work of Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, a talented early member of the Caravaggio following who is known to have been in Spain about 1617–1619.
Ghiberti's Isaac was an idealized nude, with "the suggestion of a touchingly mute and child-like heroism in the face of inexplicable doom", [141] also described as "the first truly Renaissance nude figure; in it naturalism and classicism are blended and sublimated by a new vision of what a human being can be".
There is record of Piero Bello giving Isaac a dowry for his daughter in January 1495. [6] In November 1496 after Isaac and his wife spent some time in Pisa, they moved to Vienna and became employed by Emperor Maximilian I. By the winter of 1496 Isaac and Bartolomea had gone from Pisa to Vienna to Innsbruck, and on 3 April 1497, Isaac was ...
As in the case of Ghiberti, this development probably results from exposure to his contemporary, Donatello. Della Quercia's earliest work (though this attribution is sometimes contested) appears in the Lucca cathedral: Man of Sorrows (Altar of the Sacrament) and a relief on the tomb of St. Aniello .