Ghiberti North Door Panels
Many art history textbooks include images of ghiberti s and brunelleschi s competition panels see this example in the most recent version of gardner s art through the ages but then don t include pictures of the north doors.
Ghiberti north door panels. The designs were decided entirely by ghiberti but in some cases the sculpture work was completed by his band of helpers. Brunelleschi ghiberti sacrifice of isaac competition panels for the second set of bronze doors for the florence baptistery 1401 2. As these doors were kept shut except on feast days the scenes read from the bottom accross both wings. The theme for ghiberti s north doors of the baptistry is the life of christ in 20 scenes with the 8 lower panels containing the evangelists and fathers of the church.
Upon their completion they were installed at the east entrance. North doors life of christ 1403 24 gilded bronze 457 x 251 cm baptistry florence. Baptistry florence the theme for ghiberti s north doors of the baptistry is the life of christ in 20 scenes with the 8 lower panels containing the evangelists and fathers of the church. Lorenzo ghiberti produced with the aid of some of his most highly skilled assistants these twin bronze doors that were to be eventually placed on the north side of the florence baptistery.
But you need to be able to see the north doors in order to make that association.