Ryan, Sara Agnes · Chicago : The Mayer and Miller Co. · leaf 24
Brunelleschi, his most noted com-petitor. The Baptistery had been enriched in 1114, bytwo porphyry pillars from Pisa. Of living Greek work, there is none afterthe Florentine Baptistery.—Ruskin. Besides the founding of that building, thereare other retrospects to take, and every eventin Florence,… … Bronze Door of Baptistery(Detail, showing the Sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham) Ghiberti The Saints. Ambrose of Milan. It was a Romanesquechurch and erected in fulfillment of a vow madeby a pious matron of Florence desirous of ason. The son, sent in answer to her prayers,she named Lorenzo, and the…
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