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Subject Area s : architecture object genre , fourteenth century dates CE , and sculpture visual works. Sculptor and architect; his Book II of his memoirs forms an important account of 14th-century artists. Ghiberti learned goldsmithing from Bartoluccio. He left Florence in along with another artist to serve the ruling Malatesta of Pesaro.

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Learning of a competition for the design of bronze doors for the Florence Baptistery he returned to the city, winning the commission. Bartoluccio also collaborated bronze doors today the north doors of the Baptistery in Florence. At the end of his life, Ghiberti wrote his memoirs, I commentarii , a work in three sections or books begun around and never completed.

The first book theoretical, an assessment of classical art, quoting from the writings of Vitruvius and Pliny the Elder. Because Ghiberti was a sculptor, he understandibly praised ancient art mostly sculpture and the necessity of the artist to know both the liberal arts and theoretical sciences.

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He supplemented this, again from Pliny, with a long discourse on classical bronze statuary and clay modelling. He largely confined himself in these histories to style rather than the anecdotal treatment other art narratives did. The history ends with an account of his own life, the earliest autobiography of an artist, largely a list in chronology of his works.

Ghiberti was the first to insist upon the humanistic belief that ancient art was unequaled. He praised Sienese painters, Ambrogio Lorenzetti in particular, whose naturalistic settings Ghiberti felt his own art was indebted. Ghiberti as an art historian interested two of the top art historians of the twentieth century, Julius Alwin von Schlosser and Richard Krautheimer.

English [second book], Fengler, Christie Knapp, trans.