Famous sculpture as seen and described by great writers (1910)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York, Dodd · leaf 306
ntine Baptistery. Andrea Pisano had erected thefirst of the three bronze doors seventy years earlier. Thepolitical difficulties in the latter part of the FourteenthCentury prevented the Florentines completing the work.In 1403, however, as a thank-offering after the great plagueof 1400, the Guild of… … BRONZE DOORS, BAPTISTERY, FLORENCEBy Ghiberti HE BAPTISTERY DOORS, FLORENCE 229 the eventual winner, enables us to realize the effect of thenews. Ghiberti had been born in 1381, so that he was barelyout of his teens when the announcement of the FlorentineGuild was published. He had been educated as…
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