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S03E11: HUM213 Wk7: The Contest of 1401: How Losing Built the Renaissance (Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, & Black Death)
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The Contest of 1401: How Losing Built the Renaissance
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In 1401, plague-weary Florence held a competition for new bronze doors on its baptistery, and every entrant had to depict Abraham and Isaac from Genesis 22. Lorenzo Ghiberti won. Filippo Brunelleschi lost, left for Rome with Donatello, and studied the ancient ruins. That detour embodied the Renaissance call of "ad fontes" (back to the sources) and set up one of history's great comebacks: the dome of Florence Cathedral, dedicated in 1436 to music by Guillaume Dufay. We follow the rivalry from the Bargello panels to the…
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