Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Italy / Florence / Battistero di San Giovanni / East Door (Ghiberti, Porta del Paradiso) / Panel 6: Joseph

GODS AND MYTHS

Argonauts, Jason and Medea / Census of ancient art known to the Renaissance / Known prototypes / Ancona, Museo Nazionale Archeologico (Medea Sarcophagus, formerly Rome, Stamperia Reale)
Argonauts, Jason and Medea / Census of ancient art known to the Renaissance / Known prototypes / Turin, Museo Archeologico (Medea Sarcophagus)

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Old Testament / Genesis / Joseph / Joseph sold into slavery (Gen. 37:28)
Old Testament / Genesis / Joseph / Joseph and Pharaoh (Gen. 41) / Joseph commands to collect the grain in the years of plenteousness (Gen. 41:47-49)
Old Testament / Genesis / Joseph / Joseph's Brothers in Egypt (Gen. 42-45) / Joseph commands to fill their bags and to return the payment (Gen. 42:25)
Old Testament / Genesis / Joseph / Joseph's Brothers in Egypt (Gen. 42-45) / The cup is discovered in Benjamin's sack (Gen. 44:6-13)
Old Testament / Genesis / Joseph / Joseph's Brothers in Egypt (Gen. 42-45) / Joseph embraces Benjamin (Gen. 45:14)

Further details

Krautheimer links the woman with child at the front, right of the centre, with Medea from the right end of the Sarcophagus

Artist or creator

Ghiberti, Lorenzo (c1381-1455)

Date

1425 - 1452

Location

Florence, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Richard Krautheimer, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Princeton 1956, p. 347, no. 43 and pl. 98

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

Contact

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