Lorenzo Ghiberti
A Brief Bibliography

Titles are listed by date of publication.

James David Draper. "Orsanmichele : Washington." The Burlington magazine, vol. 147 (2005) No. 1233: 851-852.

Aldo Galli. Lorenzo Ghiberti. Rome, 2005.

Marco Collareta. "Lorenzo Ghiberti: l'artista, l'intenditore, lo storico." Artifex bonus: il mondo dell'artista medievale Enrico Castelnuovo, et al, eds. Rome, 2004: 215-222.

Dominique Raynaud. "Le fonti ottiche di Lorenzo Ghiberti." Nel segno di Masaccio: l'invenzione della prospettiva Filippo Camerota, ed. Florence, 2001: 79-81.

Margaret Haines. "Ghiberti's trip to Venice." Coming about ...a Festschrift for John Shearman Lars R. Jones, ed. Cambridge, MA, 2001: 57-63.

S. Siano and R. Salimbeni. "The Gate of Paradise: physical optimization of the laser cleaning approach." Studies in conservation, vol. 46, (2001): 269-281.

Mirella Levi D'Ancona ; Maria Adele Signorini ; Alberto Chiti-Batelli. Piante e animali intorno alla Porta del Paradiso. Lucca, 2000.

Manfred Riesel. "Betrachtungen ueber die Relieftafeln der Meister Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455) und Filippo Brunelleschi (1376-1446) fuer die zweite Ture des Baptisteriums in Florenz." Mussen wir alles glauben, was man uns erzahlt? Manfred Riesel, ed. Frankfurt am Main, 1998: 171-188.

Annamaria Giusti ; Mauro Matteini. "The gilded bronze Paradise Doors by Ghiberti in the Florence Baptistery: scientific investigation and problems of restoration." Metallrestaurierung. Martin Mach, ed. Munich, 1998: 46-80.

Lorenzo Ghiberti: I commentarii. Ed. with an intro. by Lorenzo Bartoli. Florence, 1998.

Lorenzo Bartoli. "Rewriting history : Vasari's Life of Lorenzo Ghiberti." Word & image, Vol. 13 (1997): 245-252.

Antonio Paolucci. The origins of Renaissance art: the Baptistery doors, Florence. New York, 1996.

Pascal Dubourg Glatigny. "Les Commentaires de Lorenzo Ghiberti dans la culture florentine du Quattrocento." Histoire de l'art. no. 23, (Oct. 1993): 15-26.

Gerda S. Panofsky. "Ghiberti, Alberti und die fruhen Italiener." Wolfenbutteler Forschungen vol. 48, (1991): 1-28.

Diane Finiello Zervas. "Lorenzo Monaco, Lorenzo Ghiberti, and Orsanmichele, pt. II." Burlington Magazine, vol. 133, no 1065 (Dec. 1991): 812-819. 











Marvin Trachtenberg.  "Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and ''l'occhio'' minore
of Florence  Cathedral."  Journal of the Society of Architectural
Historians. vol.42, no.3, (1983): 249-257.


Lorenzo Ghiberti nel suo tempo.  2 vols.  Florence, 1980. 



Piero Morselli.  "The proportions of Ghiberti's ''Saint
Stephen'': Vitruvius's ''De Architectura'' and Alberti's ''De
Statua.'"  Art Bulletin, vol.70, no.2 (1978): 235-241.


Diane F. Zervas.  "Ghiberti's St. Matthew ensemble at Or San
Michel: symbolism in proportion."  Art Bulletin, vol 58, no. 1
(1976): 36-44.


Richard Krautheimer. In collaboration with Trude Krautheimer-Hess. Lorenzo Ghiberti.
Princeton, 1956. New editions: 1970, 1983.  As a monograph of an Italian Renaissance artist and as the
definitive study of Ghiberti this book has no equal. The 1983 edition is an economical paperback and
you should own a copy.


Mario Salmi. "Lorenzo Ghiberti e la pittura." Scritti di Storia dell'Arte in onore di Lionello 
Venturi Rome 1956: 223-237. (Supplement)


Roberto Salvini. Lorenzo Ghiberti : le porte del battistero Milan, 1956 :
"Collana 'La Minima.'"



Ludwig Goldscheider. Ghiberti. London, 1949.


A. Lane. "Florentine painted glass and the practice of design." The Burlington Magazine, 
1949, pp.43-48.


Leo Planiscig. Lorenzo Ghiberti. Florence, 1949.


Lorenzo Ghiberti. I commentari. Ed. by Ottavio Morisani. Naples, 1947.


Julius v. Schlosser. Leben und Meinungen des florentinischen Bildners Lorenzo Ghiberti. 
Basel, 1941.


Piero Ginori-Conti. Un libro di ricordi e di spese di Lorenzo e Vittorio Ghiberti. 
Florence, 1939.



H. Van Straelen. Studien zur Florentiner Glasmalerei des Trecento und Quattrocento.
 Wattenscheid 1938, pp. 80-90.


Wilhelm von Bode. "Ghibertis Versuche, seine Tonbildwerke zu glasieren." Jahrbuch der 
Preussischen Kunstsammlungen.  vol. 42, (1921) No. 2/3: 51-54.


Carl Frey, ed. Vita di Lorenzo Ghiberti, scultore fiorentino / scritta da Giorgio Vasari con i 
commentarj di Lorenzo Ghiberti e con aggiunte e note ... Berlin, 1886.


Charles C. Perkins. Ghiberti et son 'ecole. Paris, 1886.


L. G. Engraved by Ferdinand Gregory and Thomas Patch. The gates of the Baptistery of St. John 
in Florence. Florence, 1774.











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