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Image:
7.50" x 10.00"
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2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
13.00" x 15.50"
Ghiberti Doors Of Grace Cathedral Framed Print
by Mike Robles
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Ghiberti Doors Of Grace Cathedral is an original watercolor and ink painting by Mike Robles. This painting was done by inking a pencil drawing and... more
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Artist's Description
"Ghiberti Doors Of Grace Cathedral" is an original watercolor and ink painting by Mike Robles. This painting was done by inking a pencil drawing and then adding watercolor washes. Permanent artist quality paints and India ink were used.
“The cathedral entrance has a large pair of doors, often called the "Ghiberti doors". They are reproductions of the doors of the Florence Baptistery by Lorenzo Ghiberti, also dubbed the "Gates of Paradise".
In 1943, the Nazi occupation government ordered the original doors to be removed from the Florence baptistery, along with other portable artworks, to protect them from bombing and possibly to give Hermann Goring a chance to add them to his collection. They were hidden in a disused railway tunnel until 1944, and latex casts were made after their rediscovery. The replica doors were cast in 1956 from molds of the original doors and were destined for a war memorial, but when financing for the memorial fell through, San Francisco philanthrop...
About Mike Robles
About the Artist, Mike Robles I am a senior artist and a native Californian. I was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from Carlmont High School, Belmont in 1958. I graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1963 with a BS in Physical Sciences. One week after graduating, I married Jane and this year we’ll be celebrating our 50th anniversary. My career as an analytical chemist for GE Nuclear Energy started in 1963 at the Hanford Engineering Works in Eastern Washington. In 1969, my family (wife and two sons) and I moved back to California and settled in Livermore. I continued working for GE for most of my 40 year career. I was exposed to art at a young age by my extremely gifted artist mother and step-father. But, I...
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