Gates of Heaven II
Hello everyone! Today we will continue to introduce you to the reliefs on the bronze gate of the Baptistery of St. John's In florence, created by the Italian Renaissance sculptural genius Lorenzo Giberti, known as the "Gate of Paradise".
After winning the competition to build the bronze gates of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence, it took 20 years to complete the 4-meter-high bronze gate with 28 slabs inside.
Because of his excellent production, he was followed by the signing of a contract for another set of bronze gates, which was built from 1425 and took him the next 27 years, which is the "Gate of Heaven".
This set of larger doors, 5.2 meters high, divided into two left and right doors, each door is decorated with 5 blocks of reliefs, the relief content is 10 sets of stories from the biblical Old Testament legends, the border is decorated with classical style portraits and flowers and animal figures composed of lace, hundreds of relief images are carefully arranged, lifelike.
This bronze door has reached a fairly high level in terms of both technical and artistic point of view.
In the checkered relief works, Giberti successfully borrowed the artistic technique of painting, using different heights and different bumps, delicately shaping a personal figure, he used perspective to reproduce the position of the character, the environment and depth of the space, the near character is the largest, the far is smaller, until the farthest into the background, resulting in a strong sense of field.
He not only shows the exquisite skill of a craftsman in shaping and retouching every detail, but also shows the creativity of the artist, that is, accurate character expression and mastery of skillful perspective techniques. The finished bronze gate is plated with a layer of foil gold, which is full of light. When Michelangelo admired and admired the reliefs on the door, he sighed, this is really a door to heaven!
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