Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Mini-site for the 2007 exhibition The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Lorenzo Ghiberti at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW! 
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2 works by or related to the artist
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
Pictures from Image Archives:
Lorenzo Ghiberti in the Art Renewal Center
18 works online
Lorenzo Ghiberti in the Artchive 
Lorenzo Ghiberti in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)
Aiwaz Panopticon
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project 
St. John the Baptist
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Florence Baptistry
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
Miscellaneous Sites:
The Modernist Journals Project
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Lorenzo Ghiberti 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Dictionary of Art Historians NEW!
Biographical entry with emphasis on the subject's contribution to the art historical research
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Biography of the artist. Detailed, but Vasari's anecdotes are sometimes inaccurate.
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
search inside
Brunelleschi and Ghiberti: The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance
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