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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Florence Baptistery Competition Panels; Sacrifice of Isaac
Image View:
Two panels displayed side by side; Ghiberti's panel, left, Brunelleschi's panel, right
Creator:
Filippo Brunelleschi (Italian sculptor, 1377-1446); Lorenzo Ghiberti (Italian sculptor, ca.1381-1455)
Location:
repository: Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Via del Proconsolo 4
GPS:
43.770423 11.257947
Date:
1401 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
relief (sculpture)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
gold leaf; bronze mounted on wood
Technique:
casting (process); gilding (technique)
Measurements:
45 cm (height, each panel) x 38 cm (width, each panel)
Subjects:
Old Testament and Apocrypha; Abraham (Biblical patriarch); Angels; art competitions
Description:
The sponsoring guild (Arte di Calimala) demanded a competition with panel submissions of the Sacrifice of Isaac for the commission of the east doors of the Florence Baptistry. These doors, facing the west entrance of the Duomo, were the most important. The fame of the south doors completed by Andrea Pisano in 1336 also made this an extremely desirable commission. Ghiberti (who won) in his account of the competition, records the name of seven competitors, all from Tuscany: Filippo Brunelleschi, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Jacopo della Quercia, Simone da Colle, Niccolò d'Arezzo, Niccolò di Pietro Lamberti, and Francesco di Valdambrino. Only the two panels by Ghiberti and Brunelleschi have been preserved. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
1A2-I-F-FBCP-MB-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Florence Baptistery Competition Panels; Sacrifice of Isaac