Lorenzo Ghiberti

Scott Nethersole is Professor of Art History, 500–1500 CE, at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He was previously Reader in Italian Renaissance Art at the Courtauld, London. His books include Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence (2018).

"Scott Nethersole’s meticulous and lucid analysis demonstrates Lorenzo Ghiberti’s ingenuity, technical brilliance, and the power of his sculptures to engage viewers. This rich and illuminating book gives us a Ghiberti particularly skilled in design – the creative process through which he crafted reliefs and statues in copper alloys and planned architectural and other projects in stone, wood, and stained glass." - Amy R. Bloch, Professor of Art History, University at Albany, SUNY, and author of Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise"This superb book presents a new and compelling cast of Ghiberti as a scheming and ravishing artist who could think with his hands and use visual design to control affect. Scott Nethersole alloys a limpid rereading of the primary sources with an analysis of the artistic challenges of exacting patrons, unruly materials and illustrious locations to which Ghiberti responded. Nethersole is as magisterial a director of the eye as Ghiberti is." - Machtelt Brüggen Israëls, Senior Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art, University of Amsterdam, and author of Piero della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist