The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages (1880)
Sandhurst, Phillip T · N.Y., Worthington · leaf 50
irtriumphant completion nearly a hundred years after the first gate was executed byAndrea Pisano. We should have liked, but for our limits, to tell in full the legend ofthe election of Lorenzo Ghiberti, the step-son of a goldsmith, and skilled in chasingand enamelling, to design the second gate;… … THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS. {From the original painting by Rubens.) GHIDERTI, MASACCIO. 27 withdrew from the contest, magnanimously proclaiming Lorenzo Ghiberti theirsuperior; how all the three lived to be famous, the one as a founder in metal, theothers as an architect and a sculptor, and remained…
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