"I strove to imitate nature as clearly as I could, and with all the perspective I could produce," wrote sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti of the gilded bronze doors he created for Florence's Baptistery.

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Six hundred years ago, Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi finished one and two in a contest to design the decorative bronze doors that now grace Florence's beloved Baptistry. Ghiberti, the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 1419 the Florentine bankers’ guild commissioned Lorenzo Ghiberti to create a statue of St. Matthew, its patron saint, as something of an advertisement. The resulting bronze ...

We tend to think of artistic influence in terms of forebears: artists from one era drawing inspiration from those of earlier ones. Yet contemporaries’ influence on each other can be just as important, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Michelle Marie Pucci of Eltingville and Michael Ghiberti of Graniteville exchanged wedding vows July 24 at St. Clare's R.C. Church, Great Kills. Monsignor Richard Guastella ...