City Travel Guides
Home Page > Go back a page
Books : The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece (High Museum of Art Series): Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece (High Museum of Art Series)
Search Books - select a category
See Larger Image |
The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece (High Museum of Art Series): Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece (High Museum of Art Series) by: GM Radke List Price: £30.00 City Travel Guides Price: £28.50 You Save: £1.50 ( 5%)Prices subject to change. |
|
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 730.92 EAN: 9780300126150 ISBN: 0300126158 Label: Yale University Press Manufacturer: Yale University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 184 Publication Date: July 31, 2007 Publisher: Yale University Press Studio: Yale University Press Sales Rank: 58672 Related Items:
Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: World of Interiors, October 1, 2007: "...in tone the illustrations of these gilded masterpieces have a comfortable truth about them, and the concise clear-sighted essays combine to make this a reliable and necessary book..." Synopsis: In 1452, Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti unveiled a masterpiece that had been a quarter-century in the making: ten bronze panels depicting intricate scenes from the Old Testament. The monumental gilded bronze doors (each over 15 feet tall) were designed for the Baptistery in the Piazza del Duomo in Florence. Centuries of admirers have considered 'The Gates of Paradise' one of the great masterworks of Western art. This extensively illustrated book displays the full glory and elaborate details of many of the newly restored bronze panels, the remarkable work of the conservators and restorers who cleaned the priceless doors. In a series of fascinating chapters, expert contributors capture Ghiberti's world, his remarkable talent at representing human emotion in rich illusionistic settings, the relationships between Renaissance patrons and artists, and the collaborations and rivalries among artists. Other chapters explore the challenging craft of bronze sculpture, Ghiberti's casting and finishing techniques, and the painstaking process involved in documenting and restoring the treasured doors. A chronology of Ghiberti's life completes this lavishly produced volume. |
|