one of the panels on the famous bronze doors of the baptistry in florence shows a pyramid (albeit that renaissance scholars keep referring to it as 'noahs ark'). the representation of the pyramid has various lines drawn on it's surface. the near horizontal lines resemble a spiral ramp, though this is probably just coincidence; or perhaps related to ghiberti's ideas about perspective in the early 15th century. but what caught my eye was the outline of the pyramid (the 3 visible corners). this appears identical to Khufu. yet early representations of Giza are hopelessly primitive and naive (greaves, pocock et.al.) well into the 18th century.
if this is not just coincidence where might ghiberti have got his ideas from?
