Richard Krautheimer (1897–1994)
Autor(a) de Rome: A Profile of a City, 312-1308
About the Author
Obras por Richard Krautheimer
Associated Works
The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo : the representation of architecture (1994) — Contribuidor — 75 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Krautheimer, Richard
- Data de nascimento
- 1897-07-06
- Data de falecimento
- 1994-11-01
- Localização do túmulo
- Protestant Cemetery, Rome, Italy
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Germany (birth)
USA (naturalized 1943) - Local de nascimento
- Furth, Germany
- Local de falecimento
- Rome, Italy
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
Rome, Italy
Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Louisville, Kentucky, USA - Educação
- University of Halle (Ph.D|1925)
University of Munich
University of Marburg (habilitation 1927) - Ocupações
- art historian
Byzantinist
academic - Organizações
- New York University (Institute of Fine Arts)
Vassar College
University of Louisville
University of Marburg
German Army (WWI) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Fellow, Medieval Academy of America (1963)
Rome Prize (1956)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1958)
American Philosophical Society (1965)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Prémios
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 16
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 504
- Popularidade
- #49,151
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 38
- Línguas
- 5
It is probably fair to say that Ghilberti's training as a goldsmith shows through in the fine work which makes up most of these sculptures.
The book is really little more than a collection of black and white photos (a few in colour) of each of the panels and the individual portraits on the North and East doors...the doors produced by Ghilberti and his workshop. But despite the age of the book (published in 1971) the quality of the photos is superb. Most of the portraits of the prophets for example are really quite tiny yet marvellously detailed (the hand of the goldsmith evident). A couple of pages of text accompany the photographs but it is mainly historical material about how Ghilberti got the contract at the age of 22 and finished it when he was into his 50's...Not a bad accomplishment and something that he evidently looked back on with pride. Though it was interesting to me to find that even within this time-frame fashions of sculpture had moved on and Ghilberti's work was being looked upon as rather old fashioned and dated. Yet here we are, 600 years later admiring the work and appreciating it's excellence.
A nice little book. I give it four stars.… (mais)