Issued in connection with an exhibition at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, April 28-July 15, 2007, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, July 28-October 13, 2007, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, October 30, 2007-January 13, 2008. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Chronology of Lorenzo Ghiberti's life / Aldo Galli -- Art and innovation in Ghiberti's Gates of paradise / Andrew Butterfield -- Adam and Eve -- Lorenzo Ghiberti : master collaborator / Gary M. Radke -- Jacob and Esau -- Documenting the Gates of paradise / Margaret Haines and Francesco Caglioti -- Ghiberti's gold : restoration of the Gates of paradise / Annamaria Giusti -- David -- Ghiberti and the art of chasing / Edilberto Formigli -- Prophets -- Casting the panels of the Gates of paradise / Salvatore Siano, Piero Bertelli, Ferdinando Marinelli, Marcello Miccio -- Reconstructing the casting technique of Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of paradise / Francesca G. Bewer, Richard E. Stone, Shelley G. Sturman.
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