Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors & architects (1912)
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574, De Vere, Gaston du C · London, Macmillan and co. ld. & The Medici society, ld. · leaf 233
s consummately extolled by them and by the nativeand foreign craftsmen. The cost of this work, with the exterior orna-ments, which are also of bronze, wrought with festoons of fruits andwith animals, was 22,000 florins, and the bronze door weighed 34,000libbre. This work finished, it appeared to… … S. JOHN BEFORE HEROD(After Lorenzo Ghiberti. Siena: Baptistery) LORENZO GHIBERTI 151 bronze, four braccia and a half high, in memory of S. John the Baptist^on a pilaster without Orsanmichele, in one of the niches there—namely,the one facing the Cloth-dressers. This he began, nor did he ever leaveH…
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