{"product_id":"lorenzo-ghibertis-second-commentary-in-context-with-a-new-transcription-english-translation-and-commentary-9798218008642","title":"Lorenzo Ghiberti's Second Commentary in Context, with a New Transcription, English Translation, and Commentary","description":"\u003cp\u003eLorenzo Ghiberti's unfinished Commentaries is the earliest surviving writing by a great artist about the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprinciples and goals of art, about his own art, and about the attributes and means necessary for the artist to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eproduce excellent art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I of this study reevaluates the character and purpose of Ghiberti's book and examines its content, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estructure and organization, sources, dating, literary quality and style, and its place in the literature of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eItalian art. It describes each of the book's three commentaries and shows how they are interrelated and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etogether form a coherent whole. It discusses Ghiberti's deliberate selection of the excerpts from Latin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eancient and medieval texts that comprise most of the first and third commentaries and his selection of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eartists and works recorded in the second commentary, and it explores the rationale behind these choices. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile all three commentaries contribute to understanding Ghiberti's interests and intent, the second\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecommentary is the fulcrum of his book and can be fully appreciated only in the context of his writing as a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhole. At the same time, it is important in its own right as a key source of information on late thirteenth-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand fourteenth-century Tuscan and Roman painting and sculpture and Ghiberti's art. Unlike the poorly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etranslated, defective, and often incomprehensible excerpts in the first and third commentaries, the second\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecommentary was written almost entirely in Ghiberti's own words and is easily understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part II presents a new transcription and annotated English translation of this primary document for the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehistory of early Renaissance art and the history of art criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Barbara Jones Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526270554386,"sku":"9798218008642","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1290eb95-32e8-45a2-8fb5-4fb7909c02bb.jpg?v=1731267149","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lorenzo-ghibertis-second-commentary-in-context-with-a-new-transcription-english-translation-and-commentary-9798218008642","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}