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Description: Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello
~~Ghiberti, meanwhile, had been working on the third gates for the Florence Baptistry (Fig. 134), for which he was awarded the commission in January 1425,...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.227-243
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00216.009
Description: Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence
In August 1456 the sculptor Donatello presented the physician maestro Giovanni di maestro Antonio di Chellino with a gilt bronze roundel showing the Virgin and Child with attendant angels (pl. 56). The roundel has the form of a dish. Its interior is of measurable yet uncertain and uneven depth, as though alluding to the illusion of a projected space, which is then partly denied by the dense compression of figures. A balustrade curves in front of the group. One angel seems to move out from behind …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.59-89
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00066.006
Description: The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist
‘Through painting’, Alberti wrote in On Painting, ‘the faces of the dead go on living for a very long time’. But in their self-portraits early Renaissance artists, it seems, intended less to commemorate themselves for posterity than to assert in visual form their artistic and intellectual skills. The ways in which the Renaissance artist portrayed himself are therefore useful indicators of his self-image and aspirations. The context in which he sets himself, the clothes he is wearing, the …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.209-243
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00147.012

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