How Did Ghilberti Create A Renaissance Sculpture

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Sculptures were generally subjects of Torah and Bible, Jesus Christ, Mother Mary and cherubs were depictured predominantly. But other than these, also mythological subjects were used.
The main material of the sculptures was generally marble, but bronze was also used in some of them. Sculptures were three dimensional and proportion was started to use in artworks.
One of the most crucial sculptor in the period is inarguably Lorenzo Ghilberti. Ghilberti is widely known with his rellefs made for the baptistery’s door. He came to be known firstly with his works for a competition which held for designating the rellefs used at a baptistery’s room. And those rellefs launched the Renaissance sculpture. Its theme is an angel’s bringing a ram to prophet

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