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Cast from the West Bronze Gate of the Baptistry at Florence, (sculpture)

Catalog Data

Artist:
Unknown  Search this
Ghiberti (copy after)  Search this
Medium:
Cast
Type:
Sculptures
Exhibition Catalogs
Date:
1876
Notes:
Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 18
"This superb cast was brought from the South Kensington Museum, London, and consists of 46 pieces. Similar casts at Philadelphia and at the Yale College school of art are the only ones on this continent, and it is said the Italian government has interdicted any more to be taken from the original. Ghiberti was a goldsmith, and from the goldsmiths' guild arose the great sculptors in bronze. . . . The cast of this gate as it stands is 18 feet 2 inches high by 12 feet 6 inches wide exclusive of the walnut frame, which makes it altogether 19 feet 7 inches high by 14 feet 6 inches wide." [P. 7-8; excerpted from two page commentary on iconography and criticism of panels.]
Catalogue of the Paintings, Statuary, Casts, Bronzes, &c. of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C. Gibson Brothers, Printers, 1874.
Topic:
Religion--Old Testament  Search this
Control number:
AECI 06720018
Data Source:
Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index
EDAN-URL:
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