THE MOST VIVID PHOTOGRAPHY AND WRITING EVER PUBLISHED ON THE RENAISSANCE AND BEYOND
The deliciously ghastly "Last Judgment" mosaic decoration
on the vault of the Baptistery of St. John gives one reason to venture beyond
the famed bronze doors -- south done by Andrea Pisano and the north and east by Lorenzo Ghiberti, whose magnificent east pair of doors were dubbed by Michelangelo as "the Gates of Paradise."
The enlarged detail of Christ's face and bleeding torso,
from Giotto's Crucifix in the church of Santa Maria Novella gives much more
insight into the human-like depiction of Christ than one could ever see while
gazing at the crucifix from inside the old church.
The detail of Andrea Orcagna's Triumph of Death portrays
the imperfect townspeople's faces more vividly than one sees when visiting the
detached fresco in the Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce.
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FLORENCE Art and Architecture review
continues tomorrow
-- September 12
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