Word: ghibertis
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...ceremonial week for art-loving Florentines. On the very same day that the city honored its most distinguished foreign citizen (see above), fishwives, shopgirls, nuns, monks and scholars jammed the Piazza del Duomo. They had come to see the reinstallation of the famed Baptistery doors of the cathedral. Sculptor Ghiberti's 15th Century doors, with their intricate panels, each like a separate, delicate canvas, for centuries had been the pride of Florence. Worthy of Paradise, Michelangelo had said, and all Florence had agreed...
...corrosion of their bronze base had seeped through the pores in the gold leaf with which Ghiberti had covered them. Over the years, the doors had dulled, and even Florentines had come to despair that there was any gold left...
...delicate campanile; Brunelleschi's great cathedral dome which, looming above the huge round windows of its supporting tower, has risen against the horizon as the city's most prominent symbol. Also unaccounted for were Florence's masterly sculptures, including Michelangelo's celebrated marble David, Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise bronze doors to the Baptistery, the Bargello collection of pieces by Michelangelo, Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Benvenuto Cellini. However, while the retreating Germans had destroyed five of the six bridges over the Arno, they had left the oldest and most valued of all, the legendary Ponte...
...should have listened to him. Under the surface of Southampton talk about Al Smith, the Ku Klux Klan, prohibition, life was more like the life of Tsarist Russia than any debutante could understand. In Paul's absence, Anne fell in love with Marco Ghiberti, a mysterious Italian visitor (Southampton had just recovered from the visits of Lindbergh and the Prince of Wales) who was rumored to be nobility. It was a joke. Marco was a Harvard law student whose father had run a restaurant in Italy. Nothing spoiled the joke except that Anne had promised to marry Marco...
...Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Eric R. D. Maclagan, will deliver his third lecture, on "Andrea Pisano, Jacopo della Querica, and Ghiberti," at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall, and following this address there will be music In the courtyard of the Fogg Museum by members of the Harvard Glee Club. The program which they will render at the informal concert at 9.15 o'clock will be the following: O Sacrum Convivium Viadana My Bonny Lass Morley Christmas Song Holst Bring a Torch Old Carol Morning Hymn Krug Der Gang zum Liebchen Brahms Les Anges dans...