FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — A team of artisans on the outskirts of Florence are casting the final panels of a replica of a Renaissance masterpiece: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s famed bronze north doors on the ...

The Bode Museum in Berlin presents a special exhibition exploring the rich history and artistry of the Siena Baptismal Font, focusing on the restoration and display of a unique plaster model of the ...

Early in 20th-century America, the rallying cry for modernists was Williams Carlos Williams' "Make it new." Artists in 15th-century Florence didn't need a rallying cry. At the center of their ...

Then there is the fascinating ‘Joshua’ panel, which remains in Florence. To portray the crumbling of Jericho’s walls before Joshua’s army, Ghiberti incised deep cracks in the fortifications. Cracks!

Scholars have called the work among the greatest creations of Renaissance art. Michelangelo went so far as to call it “divine.” The stunning masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance known as “The Gates ...

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They're called the "Gates of Paradise," and after more than 25 years of painstaking restoration, Lorenzo Ghiberti's gilded-bronze masterpieces might just be fit for heaven. The sculptor's original ...

Michelangelo said that the doors might “fittingly stand at the gates of Paradise.” All Florentines of the 1450s agreed that their Baptistery’s portal sculpted by Lorenzo Ghiberti, was worthy of ...

Issued in connection with an exhibition held Apr. 28-July 15, 2007 at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Art Institute of Chicago, July 28-Oct. 13, 2007; and the Metropolitan Museum, New York, Oct.

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