Andrea Pisano had been brought to Florence as a specialist in bronze casting to help make a set of bronze doors for one of the portals of the Florentine Baptistery. These doors include twenty scenes from the life of St John the Baptist with figures of eight virtues below. They consist of bronze panels set in a bronze frame. The figures and many of the raised elements of ornament, architecture, and landscape were originally covered with gold leaf and burnished. The individual compositions of the scenes from the Baptist's life are, with one exception, derived from either the Baptistery mosaics or Giotto's fresco cycle in the Peruzzi Chapel at Santa Croce. The limited depth, well-spaced compositions, and simple stagelike sets are directly related to Giotto's vision of form and space.

Preview	Picture Data	File Info	Comment
	South Doors (Life of St John the Baptist) 1330 Gilded bronze, 486 x 280 cm Baptistry, Florence	800*1026 True Color 186 Kb
	South Doors 1330 Bronze Baptistry, Florence	560*866 True Color 146 Kb
	Scenes from the Life of St John the Baptist (panels of the south doors) 1330 Gilt bronze Baptistry, Florence	772*452 True Color 100 Kb
	Baptism of Christ (panels of the south doors) 1330 Gilt bronze, 39 x 39 cm Baptistry, Florence	818*937 True Color 113 Kb
	Birth of the Baptist (panel of the south doors) 1330 Gilt bronze Baptistry, Florence	702*850 True Color 179 Kb
	Entombment of the Baptist (panel of the south doors) 1330 Gilt bronze Baptistry, Florence	608*766 True Color 139 Kb
	Naming of the Baptist (panel of the south doors) 1330 Gilt bronze, 45 x 38 cm Baptistry, Florence	1001*1140 True Color 178 Kb
	The Visitation (panel of the south doors) 1330 Gilt bronze Baptistry, Florence	706*844 True Color 164 Kb
	The Baptism of the Multitude (panel of the south doors) 1330 Gilt bronze, 48 x 43 cm Baptistry, Florence	945*1200 True Color 160 Kb
	Fortitude (panel of the south doors) 1330 Gilt bronze Baptistry, Florence	660*782 True Color 147 Kb
	Hope (panel of the south doors) 1330 Gilt bronze Baptistry, Florence	653*781 True Color 134 Kb