Eastern Doors of the Baptistery in Florence
(Porta del Paradiso)
by Lorenzo GHIBERTI

Ghiberti was renowned both for his monumental bronze sculptures and for his development of a new type of pictorial low relief, which culminated in the panels of the Gates of Paradise for the Baptistery, Florence. His richly decorative and elegant art, which reached its most brilliant expression in the Gates of Paradise, did not break dramatically with the tradition of Late Gothic, yet Ghiberti was undoubtedly one of the great creative personalities of early Renaissance art; no contemporary artist had so deep an influence on the art and sculpture of later times.

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Eastern Door of the Baptistery (Porta del Paradiso)
1425-52
Bronze with gilding, 599 x 462 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Eastern Door of the Baptistery (Porta del Paradiso)
1425-52
Bronze with gilding, 599 x 462 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Eastern Door of the Baptistery (Porta del Paradiso)
1425-52
Bronze with gilding, 599 x 462 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Panel No. 1: Creation of Adam and Eve
1425-52
Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Panel No. 2: Cain and Abel
1425-52
Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Panel No. 2: Cain and Abel
1425-52
Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Panel No. 3: Stories of Noah
1425-52
Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Panel No. 4 Stories of Abraham
1425-52
Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Panel No. 5 Isaac with Esau and Jacob
1425-52
Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Panel No. 6: Stories of Joseph
1425-52
Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Panel No. 6: Stories of Joseph
1425-52
Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Panel No. 7: Moses on Mount Sinai
1425-52
Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Panel No. 7: Moses on Mount Sinai
1425-52
Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Panel No. 8: Stories of Joshua
1425-52
Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Panel No. 9: David and Goliath
1425-52
Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Panel No. 9: David and Goliath
1425-52
Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Panel No. 10: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
1425-52
Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Panel No. 10: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
1425-52
Gilded bronze, 79 x 79 cm
Baptistery, Florence


Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (detail)
1425-52
Gilded bronze
Baptistery, Florence


Porta del Paradiso: Samson
1425-52
Gilded bronze
Baptistery, Florence


Porta del Paradiso: detail of the borders
1425-52
Gilded bronze
Baptistery, Florence


Porta del Paradiso: detail of the borders
1425-52
Gilded bronze
Baptistery, Florence


Porta del Paradiso: detail of the borders
1425-52
Gilded bronze
Baptistery, Florence


Porta del Paradiso: Self-Portrait
1425-52
Gilded bronze
Baptistery, Florence


Porta del Paradiso: Self-Portrait
1425-52
Gilded bronze
Baptistery, Florence



Works by Lorenzo Ghiberti
North Doors of the Baptistery | Porta del Paradiso | various



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