Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp), 1870-1948 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 67
dto them by Brunelleschi, Jacopo della Quercia, and otherleading artists. This was in 1400, when the artist was buttwenty-two years old, and his success on this occasiondoubtless spurred the youthful Ghiberti to the subsequentefforts which produced the Gates of Paradise alreadymentioned. This north… … THE BAPTISTERY 41 beautiful and deserving of close inspection. Above it,the Preaching of S. John, by Francesco Rustici (1511). The interior (best visited on a sunny day near noon) isvery dark, so that the mosaics of the dome are .eldom seento advantage. The roof is supported by sixteen…
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