Florence as “Paradise Lost”
The city of Florence has been a place of artistic pilgrimage for centuries. This essay discusses late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and American interest in Florence and, specifically, two of its masterpieces in Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus as indica...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Religion and the arts
Year: 2018, Volume: 22, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 8-15 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ghiberti, Lorenzo 1378-1455, Paradiestür
/ Botticelli, Sandro 1445-1510, Die Geburt der Venus
/ Florence
/ Earthly paradise
/ Verlorenes Paradies
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Further subjects: | B
Florence
Dante
Domenico Michelino
Renaissance
Grand Tour
tourism
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Sandro Botticelli
Walter Pater
Bernard Berenson
Chalres Eliot Norton
E.M. Forster
Venus
Pluto and Proserpina
Jeff Koons
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