Panels from the Italian Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti tour the U.S. for the first time Arthur Lubow "I strove to imitate nature as clearly as I could, and with all the perspective I could ...

An eight-ton gilded bronze door so splendid Michelangelo dubbed it the "Door of Paradise" will be unveiled to the public again after 27 years of restoration work. But Lorenzo Ghiberti's 15th ...

In 1401, Lorenzo Ghiberti won the competition held by the Arte di Calimala, the guild of importers and finishers of woolen cloth, to decorate the north doors of the baptistery in Florence. Baptism of ...

After 25 years of painstaking restoration in Italy, Lorenzo Ghiberti's gilded-bronze "Gates of Paradise" — lavish doors considered masterpieces of Renaissance art — will travel to the United ...

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 ...

The present paper discusses the sculptural representations of Jerusalem depicted in the David and the Solomon reliefs in Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise (1425-1452). Ghiberti designed the ...

Exhibition curator Gary Radke of Syracuse University says that the special alloy of bronze developed in the 15th-century workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti for the doors had resulted in a corrosion that ...

He lost out to Lorenzo Ghiberti, a fellow goldsmith. It was the beginning of a lifelong rivalry between the two.