North Doors, Florence Baptistry

The Florence Baptistry; the North door; one relief panel in color. Twenty-eight reliefs, arranged in 7 rows, are designed within quatrefoil shapes, a precedent set by the reliefs of the South Doors by Andrea Pisano. The enframement molding is designed with foliage and fruit, animals, insects, lizards, and birds. At each intersection a head represents a male or female prophet. Note: I did not photograph the images at the left and center; therefore, they are grayscale and not clickable.

 

Schema of the North Doors
Way to Calvary	Crucifixion	Resurrection	Pentecost [color]
Agony in the Garden [color]	Arrest	Flagellation [color]	Christ before Pilate [color]
Transfiguration	Raising of Lazarus	Entry into Jerusalem	Last Supper
Baptism [color]	Temptation [color]	Expulsion of the Money Changers [color]	Christ in the Storm [color]
Annunciation [color]	Nativity	Adoration of the Magi	Christ among the Doctors
next to the bottom row: Saints John [color], Matthew [color], Luke [color] and Mark
bottom row: Saints Augustine, Jerome, Gregory, and Ambrose

 

THE RELIEFS
I have made some of these photographs of the separate reliefs grayscale because the detail shows up better in black and white.
Top row: Way to Calvary; The Crucifixion; The Resurrection; Pentecost [color]
Second row from top: Agony in the Garden [color]; The Arrest of Christ; The Flagellation [color]; Christ before Pilate [color]
Third row from top: The Transfiguration; Raising of Lazarus
		No images of The Entry into Jerusalem and The Last Supper
Fourth row from top: Baptism of Christ [color]; The Temptation [color]; Expulsion of the Money Changers [color]; Christ in the Storm [color]
Fifth row from top: The Annunciation[color]; The Nativity; The Adoration of the Magi; Christ Among the Doctors

See also Ghiberti's free-standing statue of Saint John the Baptist.

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