PAUL MARTIN
 

THE BRONZE RELIEFS: A DOOR TO PARADISE

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• ESSAY BY GREGOR SLOSS

• TEXT BY MALCOLM DONEY

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​The set of which these bronzes form a part was originally intended to form a door, influenced by the doors of the Basilica of San Zeno, in Verona. Martin admired these for the primitive vigour of their craftsmanship, and for the way their reliefs responded to light and shade, weathering and patination. The imagery of Martin's bronzes derives from the work of the 4th century writer Ephraim the Syrian, whose Hymns on Paradise render the somewhat arid discourse of theology in immediate, vivid and sensuous form.

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