Page 37 - Studio International - January 1967
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Detail of the right-hand leaf
of the bronze doors of the
Baptistery, by Andrea Pisano.
The force of their impact
against the architraves, as
the water burst them inwards,
caused the diagonal crack
which runs across the door.
The hole is left by one of the
missing panels, Fides. At the
top left, the gap from a
sheared-off section of bronze
framnig.