Lorenzo Ghiberti
Italian sculptor and architect (1378-1455) · Artists · Died at 77
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Something wrong?Michelangelo called them the Gates of Paradise. Ghiberti spent most of his working life on two sets of bronze doors for Florence's Baptistery - and they became the standard by which Early Renaissance sculpture was measured.
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About this person
Born in Florence in 1378 as Lorenzo di Bartolo, he trained as a goldsmith before establishing a metal-sculpture workshop that would anchor his career. In 1401 he won the competition to create the first set of bronze doors for the Baptistery of San Giovanni, launching a decades-long relationship with the building. The commission that followed - the second set of doors - earned Michelangelo's famous praise and secured Ghiberti's place as a defining sculptor of the Early Renaissance. Beyond the workshop, he wrote the Commentarii, a text on art that includes what may be the earliest surviving autobiography by any artist. He died in Florence on 1 December 1455.
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