Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers and their works : a handbook (1901)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 355
est known by liis bronze gates 296 GHIBERTI. to the Baptistery of Florence, which Michael Antrelo thought wor-thy to be the gates of Paradise, and which have never been sur-passed in some respects. There was much controversy as to whoshould obtain the honor of making these gates, and after Ghiberti… … fcaliirc in bas-rclict when he attciii|)l(il to represent distaiice inbackground. In this he df course failed. Imt in Ix-autiful ornamenta-tion, an<l perfect form and finish of all minor parts, he has neverbeen siirj)asse<l. (Jliibeiti also made three statues for the ch. of Or-Hanmichele; two…
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