The city of Florence has been a place of artistic pilgrimage for centuries. This essay discusses late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and American interest in Florence and, specifically, two of its masterpieces in Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus as indicative of a melancholic perspective on the Florentine Renaissance as a “Paradise Lost.” The city was ambivalently idealized as an “Earthly Paradise.”

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佛罗伦萨被誉为“失乐园”

几个世纪以来，佛罗伦萨市一直是朝圣之地。本文讨论了19世纪末和20世纪初的英国和美国对佛罗伦萨的兴趣，尤其是其在吉伯蒂的《天堂之门》和波提切利的《维纳斯的诞生》中的两部杰作，表明了佛罗伦萨文艺复兴时期“失落的天堂”的忧郁观点。 。” 这个城市被矛盾地理想化为“地球天堂”。