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.

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	South doors (Life of St John the Baptist) 1330 Gilded bronze, 486 x 280 cm Baptistery, Florence
	South doors (Life of St John the Baptist) 1330 Gilded bronze, 486 x 280 cm Baptistery, Florence
	South doors 1330 Bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 1. The angel announces to Zachariah 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 2. Zachariah is struck mute 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 3. Visitation 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 4. Birth of the Baptist 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 5. Zachariah writes the boy's name 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 6. St John as boy in the desert 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 7. He preaches to the Pharisees 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 8. He announces Christ 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 9. Baptism of his disciples 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 10. Baptism of Jesus 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 11. St John reprimands Herod Antipas 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 12. Incarceration of St. John 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 13. The disciples visit St John 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 14. The disciples visit Jesus 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 15. Dance of Salome 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 16. Decapitation of St. John 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 17. Presentation of St John's head to Herod Antipas 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 18. Salome takes the head to Herodias 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 19. Transport of the body of St. John 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: 20. Burial 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: A. Hope 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: B. Faith 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: C. Charity 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: D. Humility 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: E. Fortitude 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: F. Temperance 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: G. Justice 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors panels: H. Prudence 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence
	South doors (detail) 1330 Gilded bronze Baptistery, Florence