Lorenzo Ghiberti's "Jacob and Esau," a gilt bronze created 1425-52. Opificio Delle Pietre Dure, Florence A conservator uses a laser to clean the doorframe of Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise.

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 ...

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If Michelangelo's "David" heads the "must see" list of Renaissance masterpieces for most visitors to Florence, then I suspect "The Gates of Paradise," Lorenzo Ghiberti's monumental doors of 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 ...

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 ...

In 1401, under the patronage of the Arte di Calimala, a competition to decorate the east doors of the baptistery in Florence was announced. Of the seven Tuscan sculptors who entered the competition, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...