“On the portal the “Spes” by Andrea de Pisano. Sitting, she helplessly stretches her arms for a fruit that remains beyond her reach. And yet she is winged. Nothing is more true.” Florence, Baptistry, One-Way Street, Walter Benjamin; p 83 (via timeimmemorial)
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Spes (Hope)
Theological virtue
Andrea Pisano, 1330, South door of the Baptistery. These doors were at the main entrance before Ghiberti’s famous doors of Paradise (452). (by moedermens)
