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.