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Saturday, June 15, 2013

The Infinite Art Tournament, Round One: Ghiberti v. Ghirlandaio!

Lorenzo Ghiberti
1378 - 1455
Florentine



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Domenico Ghirlandaio
1449 - 1494
Florentine



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Vote for the artist of your choice!  Votes go in the comments.  Commentary and links to additional work are welcome.  Polls open for at least one month past posting.
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12 comments:

  1. Christine M.8:11 AM, June 15, 2013

    Ghirlandaio

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  2. Elizabeth9:15 AM, June 15, 2013

    Ghiberti for me. I sort of got into bas-reliefs at the Louvre recently, plus the second one reminds me of Captain Kangaroo.* I'm feeling nostalgic.

    * or possibly Mao-Tse-Tung; not feeling nostalgic for him at all though

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  3. Morgan10:20 AM, June 15, 2013

    I thought that Ghiberti #2 was Chairman Mao as well. He gets my vote! Ghiberti, not Mao.

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  4. pfly2:58 PM, June 15, 2013

    Some googling leads me to vote Ghirlandaio.

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  5. Chuckdaddy6:28 PM, June 15, 2013

    Tough! I'll go Ghiberti

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  6. mrs.50001:44 PM, June 16, 2013

    Oh, you've got to love those Florentines. Ghirlandaio has my vote--I love his portraits, and then he also excelled at the big fresco cycles with the new yummy perspective...building on the work of men like Ghiberti, I must concede.

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  7. Michael50002:25 PM, June 16, 2013

    Vote by email: "Has there ever been one when two artists from the same -- not country, city -- overlapped? Both stars -- what a place. Ghirlandaio was six when Ghiberti died! I'm voting for Ghirlandaio."

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  8. Michael50001:21 PM, June 22, 2013

    I have to say, I'm very very torn here.

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  9. Alison9:43 PM, July 01, 2013

    Ghiberti

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  10. Nichim7:58 AM, August 04, 2013

    Ghirlandaio!

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  11. Candida8:31 AM, August 09, 2013

    Ooh, Ghirlandaio is pretty sweet! I'm not sure why the Florentine woman has beads coming out of the back of her head, and I'm not sure why the jewelry on her chest is echoed by the one on the shelf, though there's probably some good reason, but I do admire her sleeves.

    On the other hand, I do love me some good relief work, and the Ghiberti David and Goliath bit here even has guys with tights that are a bit baggy where they got stretched out from sitting down(I think), and lovely perspective and sense of depth, and that tree in the foreground and the handy vein of rocks right by David's slingshot, and SAVL and IERVSALEM, of course. (I like it when artists label things.) In other words, I'm voting for Ghiberti.

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  12. Michael50009:47 AM, September 14, 2013

    Heavens, it's 5-5 and I still don't have enough of a druthers to make things simple with a tiebreak vote. I guess the boys from Florence will have to try their luck in a First Round Tiebreak!

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