Doors of Paradise: The Wool Merchants Guild (Calimala): paid for the beautification of Florence's baptistery took 20 years!

s! self-portrait of the artist on the doors began to engage with the linear perspective Interior VS Exterior Exterior: more attention BUT interior changed/renovated : attention to the DETAILS, careful harmonious structure Ghiberti was paid A LOT also lots of bronze was used (expenses) the system of linear perspective: adopted for certain biblical narratives => distances, multiple narratives, space not measurable though e.g. Creation of Adam and Eve (background: trees: idea of distance... trees=apple) at the right of the painting: Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise e.g. Jacob and Esau: vanishing point: where all the lines connect together system of linear perspective (how the viewer sees it) multiple biblical narratives within the same panel also at the top: Esau(?) talking to God, at the bottom: she's giving birth to the twins at the top: scripture of Ghiberti (in praise of himself. he was such an asshole!) he said he's tried to "imitate the nature" reality seen in a work of art use of the mathematical knowledge doors where not installed where they were planned to be, the Guild wanted them to be installed on the eastern wall of the baptistery, so that they face the Cathedral Orsanmmichele: where all the guilds were specific use => exterior facade had to be beautiful. the guilds paid for the sculptures and niches and such. each guild was given 10 years to beautify the building, or else they were thrown out it's kinda like a church! saints: protect the city AND protect the merchants and their money religious factor attached to the economics Ghiberti: St. John the Baptist The Wool Merchants Guild (Calimala) very rich clothing (wool merchants -> advertise!!) kept the original gothic nishe Naani di Banco: Four Crowned Saints Stone-carvers and wood-workers guild he was actually a member of the guild himself => honour of making the statue of the patron saint of his guild

 Four Crowned Saints (-> originally pagan????but Christianized) segmentation of the ground => ?? use of the base in addition to the frame => saints carving... Donatello <3 , St. George beautiful profile marble but looks so soft... + a little touch of colour to give the sense of flesh ALSO the base; in the lower register also a narrative is depicted (the scene of St. George and the dragon. series of arches at the background) used a very particular technique to capture the atmosphere Naani di Banco: Four Crowned Saints V.S. Donatello: St. George the same site Donatello: new technique ,,, St. Louis of Toulouse The niche: Donatello himself renovated it. Donatello the original sculpture was removed from its public location in the church and placed in the Santa Croce museum. (economic and political reasons) reconstruction of the niche dismantles the previous gothic sculpture. and the outside decoration too. everything motifs: come from antiquity Donatello began to think about the sculpture itself AND the outside (frame?) decoration his gesture: blessing the viewer also wearing a bishop's clothing St. George V.S. St. Louis of Toulouse the same artist (Donatello) St. Louis: also worked on the niche and reconstructed/altered it St .Louis of Toulouse V.S. St. John the Baptist bronze St. Louis embedded into the niche. St. John frame and sculpture are separate things. Donatello: David bronze biblical figure, but NUDE, young, beautiful! NOT within a niche! the earliest sculpture in the renaissance that is reinvented based on the classical art. located in the Medici Palace (courtyard) => maybe commissioned it? inscription: political message. "The victor is whoever defends the fatherland...." at the same time religious

 maybe a clue to the location of Medici's ?? Medici family: politically powerful (Lorenzo Medici: took the power) Donatello <3 Madonna and Child, Donatello Donatello gave it to his doctor to thank him! (NOT commissioned) bronze (we have a portrait of the doctor too!) Cantoria; Donatello Donatello worked on a wide range of objects... iconography: dancers and singers iconography and style: like classics marble + mosaic Equestrian Monument, Donatello in Padua (Donatello kinda went viral) Donatello drew his inspiration from the statue of Marcus Aurelius (antiquity) But different: horse is stable, in rest Render an antique work of art in a modern form (he also didn't have the technical knowledge to build the moving horse like the Romans did) Donatello was one of the first renaissance artists to use antique models to make monuments