Lorenzo Ghiberti Research Paper

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Late middle Ages
Lorenzo Ghiberti
During the late middle ages we see the advent of some great painters like Lorenzo Ghiberti (born c. 1378, Pelago, Italy—died December 1, 1455, Florence)who is best known for his creation of the “bronze door” of the baptistery of Florence (Gates of Paradise as referred by Michaelangelo). He was commisioned to this project in 1425 and took him 27 years to complete it and had 28 panels. But Ghiberti did not dedicate himself only to this. The Arte dei Mercanti di Calimala, the guild of the merchant bankers, gave him another commission, about 1412, to make a larger than life-size bronze statue of their patron saint, John the Baptist, for a niche on the outside of the guilds’ communal building, Orsanmichele. …show more content…
He is also said to be the Pupil of Cimabue, a very well-known Italian painter of his time. He is said to be the father of European painting, but due to his short life not much of his work was documented. Some of his works include decorated chapels in Assisi, Rome, Padua, Florence, and Naples with frescoes and panel paintings in tempera. Giotto's contemporary Giovanni Villani wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature. And he was given a salary by the commune [of Florence] in virtue of his talent and excellence." (Giovanni Villani) But his most well-known work is the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, which is commonly called the Arena Chapel, completed around 1305. These frescoes depict the life of Virgin Mary and Christ. He had the astounding ability to depict emotions perfectly in his paintings and to transfer perfectly accurate
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