Florence Baptistery: South Doors (Florence, Italy) : The right door: detail of Herod at supper receives the head of John
- Creator:
- Andrea Pisano, ca. 1295-ca. 1348
- Published/Created:
- Florence, Tuscany, Italy
1330-1336 - Date Depicted:
- 10/14/1998
500 AD - 1499 AD - Materials:
- bronze
- Notes:
- 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
- Topics:
- Architecture -- Italy -- 14th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Medieval
- Culture:
- Italian
- Accession Number:
- 6A1-PAN-BS-C9
- Genre:
- sculpture (AAT)
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- architectural exteriors; cycles or series; saints; John, the Baptist, Saint casting architectural elements; openings (architectural elements) ; doors; visual works; sculpture (visual work); reliefs (sculptures); bas-reliefs (sculpture)
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Base Collection
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
10/14/1998 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4152
- OID:
- 10103284
- PID:
- digcoll:1804472