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306 - [Florence] Book on the Second and Third Bronze Doors of the Church of St. John the Baptist. Florence, Patch, [1772–74], A rare collection of plates depicting Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise
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[Florence] Book on the Second and Third Bronze Doors of the Church of St. John the Baptist. Florence, Patch, [1772–74], A rare collection of plates depicting Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise [Florence] Book on the Second and Third Bronze Doors of the Church of St. John the Baptist. Florence, Patch, [1772–74]. Folio (740 x 460 mm); [2] pages. Text in Italian and English with a vignette depicting Ghiberti, a copper-engraved finial, and a full-page portrait of Pietro Leopoldo. 34 plates, the last of which is a double-page spread unrelated to the work, engraved in copper by Ottaviani (a few small spots). A copy on heavy paper of this rare publishing venture. Announced in the *Gazzetta Toscana* in September 1772, the copper engravings by Thomas Patch and Ferdinando Gregori reproduce Lorenzo Ghiberti’s famous bronze doors for the Florence Baptistery. The project, carried out between 1772 and 1774, enjoyed an exclusive five-year privilege granted by Pietro Leopoldo, to whom the prints were presented in April 1773. A rare collection of plates depicting Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise
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