Forging Beauty: The Artistry of Metal Oxide Masterpieces
Ed Whitmore is a San Diego artist specializing in metal effects painting and sculpting. Whitmore, a self-taught artist, explained to the Middle Land how he began creating in this niche style, “What drives the work is the medium, which is metal effect paint consisting of iron, copper, and bronze—three metals” He stated that his abstract […]
Lorenzo Ghiberti, The Creator of the “Gates of Paradise”
Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was a Florentine Italian artist of the Early Renaissance best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Baptistry of Florence Cathedral, called by Michelangelo the “Gates of Paradise”. Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, he established an important workshop for sculpture […]
Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance
Florence, during the first decades of the fifteenth century, was the axis around which the world turned. In among its twenty neighbourhoods with their gonfaloniers, their streets and palaces, their churches and houses, Alberti was writing his treatise “On Painting”, Masaccio had painted the Brancacci Chapel frescoes and his Holy Trinity adorned Santa Maria Novella […]