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Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455)
Aliases: Bartuluccio "di" Michele Ghiberti; Lorenzo "di" Cione Ghiberti; Lorenzo "di" Cione "di" Buonaccarso Ghiberti; Lorenzo di Bartolo; Lorenzo di Bartoluccio; Lorenzo di Cione di Ser Buonaccorso
Professions: Painter; Sculptor
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A FLORENTINE GILT AND POLYCHROME PAINTED STUCCO RELIEF OF THE MADONNA AND CHILD, FROM THE WORKSHOP OF LORENZO GHIBERTI (FLORENCE 1378-1455 FLORENCE), FIRST HALF 15TH CENTURY
Lorenzo Ghiberti Biography
(b Florence, 1378; d Florence, 1 Dec 1455). Bronze-caster, sculptor, goldsmith, draughtsman, architect and writer. He was the most celebrated bronze-caster and goldsmith in early 15th-century Florence, and his many-sided activity makes him the first great representative of the universal artist of the Renaissance. His richly decorative and elegant art, which reached its most brilliant expression in the Gates of Paradise (Florence, Baptistery), did not break dramatically with the tradition of Late Gothic, yet Ghiberti was undoubtedly one of the great creative personalities of early Renaissance art; no contemporary artist had so deep an influence on the art and sculpture of later times. His art, in which idealism and realism are fused, reflects the discovery of Classical art as truly as the realism of Donatello, and to label Ghiberti a traditionalist is to define the Renaissance art of the early 15th century one-sidedly in terms of increased realism. His competition relief of the Sacrifice of Isaac (1401; Florence, Bargello) determined the development of low relief not only in the 15th century but through the stylistic periods of Mannerism and Baroque, and up until the work of Rodin in the 19th century. Ghiberti’s writings, I commentarii , which include his autobiography, established him as the first modern historian of the fine arts, and bear witness to his ideal of humanistic education and culture. He was wealthier than most of his contemporary artists, and he owned considerable land and securities.
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