Download or read book The Gates of Paradise written by Gary M. Radke and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich account of the giant bronze doors created by Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti--so exquisite that Michelangelo proclaimed them suitable to serve as the Gates of Paradise.
Download or read book Lorenzo Ghiberti s Gates of Paradise written by Amy R. Bloch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the heretofore unsuspected complexity of Lorenzo Ghiberti's sculpted representations of Old Testament narratives in his Gates of Paradise (1425–52), the second set of doors he made for the Florence Baptistery and a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture. One of the most intellectually engaged and well-read artists of his age, Ghiberti found inspiration in ancient and medieval texts, many of which he and his contacts in Florence's humanist community shared, read, and discussed. He was fascinated by the science of vision, by the functioning of nature, and, above all, by the origins and history of art. These unusually well-defined intellectual interests, reflected in his famous Commentaries, shaped his approach in the Gates. Through the selection, imaginative interpretation, and arrangement of biblical episodes, Ghiberti fashioned multi-textured narratives that explore the human condition and express his ideas on a range of social, political, artistic, and philosophical issues.
Download or read book Doors to Paradise written by Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkur and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doors to Paradise: Poems for the Soul is Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkurs fourth book of poetry, and it follows his previously published trilogy on love. His poems are an invitation for our souls to discover what lies behind each door we encounter in life. The author experienced intense joy, peace, and freedom as he wrote these poemsemotions he hopes to share with all. The poems in this collection are arranged in chronological order and written in various rhyming styles. The poems were created as spontaneous outbursts of the soul, and in the reading of them, the author hopes that the readers heart will similarly open and receive the emotions they convey. Like doorways into the authors soul, Doors to Paradise: Poems for the Soul reflects the peace and contentment in his life now. The Muse Forever poised on the brink of a poem, patiently waiting for the Muse to rise or fall from the skies, the poets eye looks out onto the fields of paradise left vacant of her presence. He looks for her in his heart and sees that she indeed is the one thing he needs and wants; a window is flung open, a door beckons, the house of the soul welcomes him home ...
Download or read book Gates of Paradise written by V.C. Andrews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major Lifetime movie event, from New York Times bestselling author and literary phenomenon V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) comes the fourth installment in the classic story of the Casteel family saga. Stunned by tragedy, a young woman finds herself desperate and alone, and clinging to the frailest of dreams. Can Heaven’s daughter find the inner strength to survive? The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by the possessive Tony Tatterton, Annie pines for her lost family, but especially for Luke, her half-brother. Friend of her childhood, her fantasy prince, her loving confidante…without the warm glow of Luke’s love, she is lost in the shadows of despair. When Annie discovers Troy’s cottage hidden in Farthinggale’s woods, the mystery of her past deepens. And even as she yearns to see Luke again, her hopes and dreams are darkened by the sinister Casteel spell…treacherous, powerful, and evil.
Download or read book The Gates of Paradise written by Anna Maria Giusti and published by Giunti Editore. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[An] illustrated account of the history, importance, and painstaking restoration of Lorenz Ghiberti's "Gates of Paradise". After nearly thirty years of restoration, the gilt bronze doors that Lorenzo Ghiberti made for the Florence Baptistery between 1425 and 1452 are once again on show for the world to see. This masterpiece of 15th-century sculpture, which Michelangelo called the Gates of Paradise, has found a new home in the Museo dell'Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. This book presents the first images of the fully restored Gates, traces their long history, and offers a careful look at the Old Testament scenes on the bronze panels ..."--Publisher description.
Download or read book Paradise Door written by Brent Shibla and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do we go when we die? 35-year old high school teacher Memphis Clarke cannot remember the last moments of his life and finds himself unable to explain where he is now. While he ventures through this unknown place, he'll search for answers, encountering familiar and unfamiliar faces as he reflects on his past in hopes of finding absolution.
Download or read book Origins of Renaissance Art written by Antonio Paolucci and published by George Braziller Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instructive exposition and illustration of all three sets of doors at the baptistery, which were seminal in the development of Renaissance art. With excellent colour plates.
Download or read book The Florence Baptistery Doors written by George Robinson and published by Penguin Putnam. This book was released on 1980 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a publication that for once merits the description "a revelation", in which close-up photography records the powerful and moving imagery of a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture.
Download or read book Opening the Gates of Heaven written by Perry Stone and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Opening the Gates of Heaven, Perry Stone shows you how to release the flow of heaven's blessing through both God's revelation and the intervention of angelic messengers.
Download or read book The Wreck of Heaven written by Holly Lisle and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are doors into other worlds -- and those who cross over are changed forever ... Two women have discovered the way into a new reality -- one so close to Earth that events there have shattering repercussions here. On Oria -- a wondrous paradise and nightmare both -- Molly McColl has powers she never imagined ... and a destiny that threatens her life, her love, and her soul. While Lauren Dane must use an extraordinary, newfound magic to protect her young son -- and to join with her sister on a quest that will shake the foundations of Heaven itself. For a serpentine evil now threatens the worldchain -- a soulless, immortal enemy who feeds on the death of worlds, and who is now turning its hungry, malevolent gaze on Oria ... and Earth.
Download or read book Paradise Lost Book 3 written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Agnostic written by Susan Jacoby and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography that restores America's foremost 19th-century champion of reason and secularism to the still contested 21st-century public square.
Download or read book Lorenzo Ghiberti written by Richard Krautheimer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of 2. Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor and towering figure of the Renaissance, was the creator of the celebrated Bronze Doors of the Baptistery at Florence, a work that occupied him for twenty years and became known (at Michelangelo's suggestion, according to tradition) as the Doors of Paradise. Here Richard Krautheimer takes what Charles S. Seymour, Jr., describes as "a fascinating journey into the mind, career, and inventiveness of one of the indisputably outstanding sculptors of all the Western tradition." This one-volume edition includes an extensive new preface and bibliography by the author. Richard Krautheimer, Professor Emeritus of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, currently lives in Rome. He is the author of numerous works, including the Pelican Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture and Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308 (Princeton). Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology, 31. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Ghiberti s Doors to Paradise written by Lincoln Hulley and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hamburgers in Paradise written by Louise O. Fresco and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of our past, present, and future relationship with food For the first time in human history, there is food in abundance throughout the world. More people than ever before are now freed of the struggle for daily survival, yet few of us are aware of how food lands on our plates. Behind every meal you eat, there is a story. Hamburgers in Paradise explains how. In this wise and passionate book, Louise Fresco takes readers on an enticing cultural journey to show how science has enabled us to overcome past scarcities—and why we have every reason to be optimistic about the future. Using hamburgers in the Garden of Eden as a metaphor for the confusion surrounding food today, she looks at everything from the dominance of supermarkets and the decrease of biodiversity to organic foods and GMOs. She casts doubt on many popular claims about sustainability, and takes issue with naïve rejections of globalization and the idealization of "true and honest" food. Fresco explores topics such as agriculture in human history, poverty and development, and surplus and obesity. She provides insightful discussions of basic foods such as bread, fish, and meat, and intertwines them with social topics like slow food and other gastronomy movements, the fear of technology and risk, food and climate change, the agricultural landscape, urban food systems, and food in art. The culmination of decades of research, Hamburgers in Paradise provides valuable insights into how our food is produced, how it is consumed, and how we can use the lessons of the past to design food systems to feed all humankind in the future.
Download or read book Beyond Heaven s Door written by Max Lucado and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections in this book are taken from the previously published 'When Christ comes' ... c1999 Max Lucado.
Download or read book Milton s Visual Imagination written by Stephen B. Dobranski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton's Visual Imagination contends that Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details.
