"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 ...

The BYU Museum of Art recently acquired plaster casts of Ghiberti's 'Gates of Paradise.' The original artwork decorates doors on the San Giovanni Baptistery in Florence, Italy, but the MOA will take ...

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, ...