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Lorenzo Ghiberti, Gate of Paradise
This famous gilded bronze doors, known as the “Gates of Paradise”, was realized for the Baptistery by Lorenzo Ghiberti between and The ten panels depict scenes from the Old Testament. The Wool Merchants Guild commissioned Ghiberti to realize the third and last door of the Baptistery depicting scenes from the Old Testament after his superb rendering of stories from the life of Christ on the second doors. Initially this third set of doors was destined for the northern side of the Baptistery, but proved so dazzlingly beautiful that they were given place of honor on the eastern side, opposite the Cathedral facade. For this commission Ghiberti was freed from the rigid pattern of 28 panels used for the previous sets of doors, allowing him to adopt a simpler scheme favoring the narrative: ten panels illustrating forty-seven stories from the Bible. The square shape of the panels permitted the artist to use perspective and group episodes toge
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These are electrotype doors cast by Messrs Franchi & Sons in London in about They were cast from the 'Gates of Paradise' doors at Florence Cathedral made by Lorenzo Ghiberti in Florence between and
This is an electrotyped impression of the second Baptistry door commissioned from Lorenzo Ghiberti bygd the Arte dei Mercantoni di Calimala (the guild of the merchants dealing in utländsk cloth, and exporting cloth). The first door, executed between and , was decorated with reliefs containing scenes from the New Testament. For the second door, in which the scenes were to be drawn from the Old Testament, Leonardo Bruni ( ) submitted a programme at the invitation of the Calimala guild. This programme was rejected in favour of a new scheme, which may have been drawn up bygd Ambrogio Traversari (). In July , it was decided to set up the new doors, not at the North portal for which they had been intended, but "because of their beauty", at the East entrance opposite the Cathe
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
Italian Early Renaissance artist ()
Lorenzo Ghiberti (, ,[1][2][3]Italian:[loˈrɛntsoɡiˈbɛrti]; – 1 December ), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, a key figure in the Early Renaissance, best known as the creator of two sets of bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, the later one called by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise. Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, he established an important workshop for sculpture in metal. His book of Commentarii contains important writing on art, as well as what may be the earliest surviving autobiography by any artist.
Ghiberti's career was dominated by his two successive commissions for pairs of bronze doors to the Florence Baptistery (Battistero di San Giovanni). They are recognized as a major masterpiece of the Early Renaissance, and were famous and influential from their unveiling.
Early life
[edit]Ghiberti was born in in Pelago, a