Perspective in Sculpture and Mid-Renaissance Painting


Filippo Brunelleschi
Competition Panel, 
Abraham and Isaac, 1401

Lorenzo Ghiberti,
Competition Panel, 
Abraham and Isaac, 1401

 
 
Lorenzo, Ghiberti
The Gates of Paradise,
Florence, Baptistry

Eastern Door, 1425-52

in situ


 
 
 
 

Lorenzo, Ghiberti
The Gates of Paradise, The Story of Jacob and Esau,

Florence, Baptistry
Eastern Door, 1425-52

 

 
 
 
 
 
 


The Arrangement of the Narrative
A semiotic or structuralist analysis

 
 
Eve Adam
Ezekiel? Genesis
Adam, Eve, 
Expulsion
Jeremiah? Unidentified
Sibyl
Cain and Abel Joab? Expulsion
Sin
Elias? Noah Jonah Hannah? Abraham Samson Renewed
pact
Covenant
Unidentified
Prophet
Isaac
Rebecca Praying
Essau and his Dogs
Blessing
Rachel? Unidentified
Prophet

(self-
portrait)

Joseph
Distribution of Grain
Revealing Himself
Unidentified
Prophet
Covenant
Miriam Moses
Moses and Laws
Aaron Joshua Joshua
Jericho
Gideon Leaders
Deliverance
Judith David Nathan Daniel Solomon Bileam Leaders
Kings
Noah Puarphara

 

Eve Adam
Ezekiel? Genesis
Adam, Eve, 
Expulsion
Jeremiah? Unidentified
Sibyl
Cain and Abel Joab? Expulsion
Sin
Elias? Noah Jonah Hannah? Abraham Samson Renewed
pact
Covenant
Unidentified
Prophet
Isaac
Rebecca Praying
Essau and his Dogs
Blessing
Rachel? Unidentified
Prophet

(self-
portrait)

Joseph
Distribution of Grain
Revealing Himself
Unidentified
Prophet
Covenant
Miriam Moses
Moses and Laws
Aaron Joshua Joshua
Jericho
Gideon Leaders
Deliverance
Judith David Nathan Daniel Solomon Bileam Leaders
Kings
Noah Puarphara