"Scott Nethersoles meticulous and lucid analysis demonstrates Lorenzo Ghibertis 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
