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Ghiberti

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Ghi·ber·ti  (g-brt), Lorenzo 1378?-1455.
Florentine sculptor whose series of bronze panels Gates of Paradise (1425-1452) for the doors of the baptistery of Florence Cathedral are among the greatest works of early Renaissance art.
Ghiberti (Italian) [giˈbɛrti]
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(Biographies / Ghiberti, Lorenzo (1378-1455) M, Italian, ARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptor, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter, ARTS AND CRAFTS: goldsmith) Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso). 1378-1455, Italian sculptor, painter, and goldsmith of the quattrocento: noted esp for the bronze doors of the baptistry of Florence Cathedral


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As it is, applying the same aesthetic judgments as i do to the reliefs of Donatello and Ghiberti, i find them pretty feeble stuff, and the only thing that astonishes me is that they are as intricate and refined as they are, for the Aztecs, having no hard metals, worked on hard stone with tools of harder stone.
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By invoking Ghiberti and Leonardo (and others), I was not suggesting that the duration of the viewing process justified the use of the continuous method.
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The adjacent Campanile (bell tower) was built by Giotto and Andrea Pisano while the eight-sided Baptistery, with its decorated bronze doors, was put together by Lorenzo Ghiberti and Pisano.
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