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Filippo Brunelleschi, The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401-2, gilded bronze relief, 45 x 38 cm, competition piece for the second bronze doors of the Baptistry San Giovanni, Florence, Bargello (1879, from the Medici-Granducal Coll., inv. Br 209). For some time it was mounted on the altar front of the Old Sacristy of San Lorenzo also designed by Brunelleschi
Lorenzo Ghiberti (UK: / ɡ ɪ ˈ b ɛər t i /, US: / ɡ iː ˈ-/, [1] [2] [3] Italian: [loˈrɛntso ɡiˈbɛrti]; 1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, a key figure in the Early Renaissance, best known as the creator of two sets of bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, the later one called by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise.
English: Lorenzo Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of Isaac, gilded bronze relief, 1401-2, 45 x 38 cm, competition piece for the second bronze doors of the Baptistry San Giovanni, Florence, Bargello (1879, from the Medici-Granducal Coll., inv. Br 203)
The Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence possesses the largest brick dome in the world, [2] [3] and is considered a masterpiece of European architecture.. Filippo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapi (1377 – 15 April 1446), commonly known as Filippo Brunelleschi (/ ˌ b r uː n ə ˈ l ɛ s k i / BROO-nə-LESK-ee; Italian: [fiˈlippo brunelˈleski]) and also nicknamed Pippo by Leon ...
Exhibition history: Florence!, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 22 November 2013 - 9 March 2014 References: Dai Medici al Bargello, Vol. 2 I Bronzi del Rinascimento, Il Quattrocento, 1
The competitors were each to design a bronze panel of similar shape and size, representing the Sacrifice of Isaac. Two of the panels from the competition have survived, those by Lorenzo Ghiberti and Brunelleschi. Each panel shows some strongly classicising motifs indicating the direction that art and philosophy were moving, at that time.
Among the most famous works of art employing the barbed quatrefoil are the bronze panels on the south doors of the Florence Baptistery (1330–36) by Andrea Pisano, the bronze panels of the north doors of the Florence Baptistery by Lorenzo Ghiberti, Filippo Brunelleschi's competition entry for the same doors (The Sacrifice of Isaac), as well as ...
The Sacrifice of Isaac (Rembrandt) S. Sacrifice of Isaac (Andrea del Sarto) T. The Triumph of Judith with Stories from the Old Testament; W. Wittenberg Altarpiece