Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c9.23

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A very near parallel may be found in the celebrated bronze doors of the Baptistery of Florence by Lorenzo Ghiberti, one of the great masterpieces of Italian art of which Michelangelo is reported to have said that they were “fit to be the gates of Paradise.” In these gates a number of Biblical scenes are treated in a series of relief panels with similar accessories to those used by the Bôrôbudûr sculptors, *i.e.* the figures are accompanied by representations of temples, houses, trees, clouds, water, and landscape subjects.