Baptistery of San Giovanni | baptistery, Florence, Italy (original) (raw)

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• feature of Florence
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    In Florence: City layout
    Opposite the cathedral stands the Baptistery; the building dates from the 11th century but was believed by Florentines to be a surviving Roman monument when they commissioned for it a series of bronze doors with relief sculptures (1330; 1401–52). The third pair of these doors, by Lorenzo Ghiberti, were of…
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• Brunelleschi
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    In Filippo Brunelleschi: Early years
    …for the door of the Baptistery of Florence. Brunelleschi’s trial panel depicting The Sacrifice of Isaac is the high point of his career as a sculptor. His ability to arrest narrative action at the moment of its greatest dramatic impact and the vigorous gestures and animated expressions of the figures…
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• Pisano
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    In Western sculpture: Italian Gothic
    …bronze doors completed for the Baptistery of Florence cathedral during the 1330s. The scenes of the life of St. John the Baptist are set in quatrefoils (a four-lobed foliation), a common High Gothic decorative motif. Within this awkward shape, the episodes are composed with masterly skill. Although nothing certain has…
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