The original bronze doors, now displayed inside the chapel, were modelled on Lorenzo Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise” at the Florence Baptistery and depict scenes from the Old Testament.

Michelangelo said that the doors might “fittingly stand at the gates of Paradise.” All Florentines of the 1450s agreed that their Baptistery’s portal sculpted by Lorenzo Ghiberti, was worthy ...

Florence, December 6 - The three massive sets of doors from the Florence Baptistery, which had been separated for nearly 30 years for restoration work, are now back together at the Museo dell ...

(see related story) Florence, December 6 - The 14th-century project for the doors of the Florence Baptistery foresaw all of the doors in the same format, with stories organised in 28 squares ...

Historians have, in particular, noted the similarities between the Birth of Venus and Lorenzo Ghiberti’s 14th-century bronze depiction of the baptism of Christ, which appears on the doors of the ...

The metal elements were taken to Florence’s Opificio delle Pietre Dure (OPD), one of the world’s leading centres of art restoration, which had worked on Ghiberti’s bronze doors for the ...

Florence’s private residence club Palazzo Tornabuoni recently unveiled an exciting new exhibition, which gives the 109 members from all over the world a renewed understanding of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s ...

Groundbreaking statues, paintings, and architecture—humanism in Florence and beyond. Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. This rebirth of classical culture ...

On November 23, 1403, Lorenzo Ghiberti (Pelago, 1378 - Florence, 1455) signed the contract for the construction of the North Door of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence. This was the final ...

On November 23, 1403, Lorenzo Ghiberti (Pelago, 1378 - Florence, 1455) signed the contract for the construction of the North Door of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence.This was the final ...