1. Competition panel for the second set of bronze doors for the Florentine Baptistry. Sponsored by the Opera of the Baptistry and the Arte di Calimala.
2. In the competition to create this set of doors was: (all Tuscans) Jacopo della Quercia, Filippo Brunelleschi, and Lorenzo Ghiberti.
3. Ghiberti, at the time was only about 20 years old and an active painter.
4. Subject: Old Testament story of how God tested Abraham in His command to sacrifice Isaac. This story was intended to foreshadow the sacrifice of Christ & divine intervention
5. Panel illustration: the angel intervenes as Isaac kneels on the altar, his father about to put a knife to his throat. The two servants, the ram caught in the thicket, & the donkey drinking also appear in Brunelleschi’s panel.
6. In 1425 Ghiberti was paid a sum for his panel & gilding the figures & landscape. He and fellow workshop members worked on the North Doors until 1424
7. Involved: modeling in wax, casting in bronze, chasing, gilding, & burnishing the cast bronze. Subject change: Ghiberti was faced with illustrating the New Testament instead of the old and setting his panel aside instead for use in the third doors
8. The panels were hollow cast; gilded bronze 17 feet tall doors. International style Gothic: the body forms, swooping thick curves (drapery);
2. In the competition to create this set of doors was: (all Tuscans) Jacopo della Quercia, Filippo Brunelleschi, and Lorenzo Ghiberti.
3. Ghiberti, at the time was only about 20 years old and an active painter.
4. Subject: Old Testament story of how God tested Abraham in His command to sacrifice Isaac. This story was intended to foreshadow the sacrifice of Christ & divine intervention
5. Panel illustration: the angel intervenes as Isaac kneels on the altar, his father about to put a knife to his throat. The two servants, the ram caught in the thicket, & the donkey drinking also appear in Brunelleschi’s panel.
6. In 1425 Ghiberti was paid a sum for his panel & gilding the figures & landscape. He and fellow workshop members worked on the North Doors until 1424
7. Involved: modeling in wax, casting in bronze, chasing, gilding, & burnishing the cast bronze. Subject change: Ghiberti was faced with illustrating the New Testament instead of the old and setting his panel aside instead for use in the third doors
8. The panels were hollow cast; gilded bronze 17 feet tall doors. International style Gothic: the body forms, swooping thick curves (drapery);
-Shannon Sutton
Hi Emily,
ReplyDeleteBe inspired! Soak it all in and let your vision influence your designed spaces!
Blessings,
Wendy Puffer