Thursday, February 12, 2009
"Gates of Paradise" ♥ 6:27 AM
- located at the Florence Baptistry
- the Florence Baptistry located in Florence, Italy
- architecture of the building is in Florentine Romanesque style
- In 1401, a commpetition was announced to design the baptistry North Doors.
- several competitors competed including Lorenzo Ghiberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Donatello, and Jacopo della Quercia
- Lorenzo Ghiberti was the winnner
- took him 21 years to complete the doors
- gilded bronze doors consist of twenty-eight panels, with twenty panels depicting a biblical scene from the Old and New Testament. The eight lower panels show the four evangelists and the Church Fathers Saint Ambrose, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory and Saint Augustine. The panels are surrounded by a framework of foliage in the doorcase and gilded busts of prophets and sibyls at the intersections of the panels.
Labels: Gates of Paradise
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