The bronze door in Naples’s Castelnuovo : the birth of a monumental chronicle.
The bronze door in Naples’s Castelnuovo is both the only bronze door with a lay purpose and the first monumental chronicle of the Italian renaissance. The king of Naples, Ferdinand the first, had the succession war against Jean d’Anjou represented on its six panels. The structural analysis of this early narrative work enables us to catch the emergence of a new iconography, the chronicle of a living prince, represented on a big scale. Although it is in keeping with the works of Filarete, Ghiberti, Mantegna or the Tavola Strozzi, the formal composition innovates as regards the unusual arrangement of the scenes, the friezes and the medalions, as well as the glorification of the Prince thanks to Ancient History and to an exact topography.
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