Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Florence Baptistery Competition Panels; Sacrifice of Isaac
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Image View:
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Raking view, two panels displayed side by side; Ghiberti's panel, left, Brunelleschi's panel, right
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Creator:
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Filippo Brunelleschi (Italian sculptor, 1377-1446); Lorenzo Ghiberti (Italian sculptor, ca.1381-1455)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Via del Proconsolo 4
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GPS:
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+43.770423+11.257947
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Date:
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1401 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fifteenth century; Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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relief (sculpture)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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gold leaf; bronze mounted on wood
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Technique:
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casting (process); gilding (technique)
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Measurements:
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45 cm (height, each panel) x 38 cm (width, each panel)
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Subjects:
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Old Testament and Apocrypha; Abraham (Biblical patriarch); Angels; art competitions
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Description:
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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)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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1A2-I-F-FBCP-MB-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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