| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Florence, Tuscany, Italy | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1330-1336 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Pisano, Andrea | en_US |
| dc.date | 1330-1336 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-07-11T20:52:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-07-11T20:52:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1330-1336 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 224544 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 604 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/133119 | |
| dc.description | The right door: the daughter of Herodias asks for John's head/The Decollation of John; In 1329 the Arte di Calimala (the cloth-merchants' guild, who were in charge of the Baptistery), abandoning an earlier plan to cover the wooden doors of the Baptistery with metal plates, decided to install new doors cast in bronze (now on the south side). Documents identify the designer as Andrea Pisano. The doors, installed in 1336, were cast by the lost-wax process, with fire-gilt figures, background details and decorative motifs. The 28 rectangular fields contain reliefs, each within a quatrefoil frame, illustrating scenes from the Life of St John the Baptist and, in the lowest two rows, seated Virtues. In them Andrea succeeded in translating the narrative power of Giotto's paintings into sculpture. The reliefs reveal the influence of northern Gothic art but also hint at the sculptor's future assimilation of the classical style in his work on the campanile Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 12/16/2007) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | bronze | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architectural exteriors | en_US |
| dc.subject | cycles or series | en_US |
| dc.subject | saints | en_US |
| dc.subject | John, the Baptist, Saint | en_US |
| dc.subject | Medieval | en_US |
| dc.title | Florence Baptistery: South Doors | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 6A1-PAN-BS-C5 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | Italian | en_US |
| vra.technique | casting (process) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | door | en_US |
| vra.worktype | bas-relief (sculpture) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Andrea Pisano (Italian sculptor, ca. 1295-1349) | en_US |
