Lorenzo Ghiberti (eBook)

Volume II

Richard Krautheimer (Autor)

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2019
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691200606 (ISBN)

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Volume 2 of 2. Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor and towering figure of the Renaissance, was the creator of the celebrated Bronze Doors of the Baptistery at Florence, a work that occupied him for twenty years and became known (at Michelangelo's suggestion, according to tradition) as the Doors of Paradise. Here Richard Krautheimer takes what Charles S. Seymour, Jr., describes as "e;a fascinating journey into the mind, career, and inventiveness of one of the indisputably outstanding sculptors of all the Western tradition."e; This one-volume edition includes an extensive new preface and bibliography by the author.Richard Krautheimer, Professor Emeritus of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, currently lives in Rome. He is the author of numerous works, including the Pelican Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture and Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308 (Princeton).Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology, 31.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.8.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 220 x 220 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • Allegory • Ambulatory • ancient art • Andrea Pisano • Anonimo (watch) • Apse • Archetype • Arch of Marcus Aurelius • Arnold van Gennep • Assyrian calendar • Astrology • awareness • Axis Mundi • Baptistery • Barbarian • bathing • Bethulia • brain size • Bronze Age • cain and abel • Calculation • Capitoline Museums • Chimpanzee • Commentarii • Competition • Consciousness • corporate tax • creation myth • deity • Diodorus Siculus • Dionysius of Halicarnassus • Dionysus • Dome of the Rock • Donatello • drapery • Durga • East Africa • Enlil • Fermo • Freyr • God • hieros gamos • Hunter-Gatherer • Irish Sea • John Ruskin • Leonardo Bruni • lingam • Maenad • Masaccio • Masculinity • Mathematics • Mein Kampf • military camp • Mithraism • Mourning • Muhammad • Natural History (Pliny) • Near East • New York University • Palazzo Pubblico • Paradise Regained • Payment • piety • Pisanello • Poggio Bracciolini • Polidoro da Caravaggio • primary source • Religion • Rite • River God • sacred grove • Sanskrit • Sarcophagus • Sinopia • Skirt • Sky deity • Sleeveless shirt • Solar deity • sprouting • Stone tool • Stupa • Supreme being • Susanna (Book of Daniel) • Symplegades • Technology • theory • The Other Hand • The Prophetess (play) • Thomas Patch • Trecento • tunic • Varuna • Villa Ludovisi • Virgin birth of Jesus • warfare • World History • Worship • Writing • zeuxis
• ISBN-13: 9780691200606 / 9780691200606