Ghiberti 10 Panels East Door

Michelangelo famously described these as the gates of paradise they are divided into ten panels each containing a scene from the old testament.

Ghiberti 10 panels east door. Originally the gates of paradise were to have 28 figural panels as in the earlier sets of baptistery doors but this plan was scaled down to 10 panels a decision probably influenced by ghiberti s aesthetic judgment. Gates of paradise the pair of gilded bronze doors 1425 52 designed by the sculptor lorenzo ghiberti for the baptistery of san giovanni in florence. Isaac jacob and esau gilded bronze relief panel from the east doors gates of paradise of the baptistery of san giovanni in florence by lorenzo ghiberti 1425 52. Filippo brunelleschi and lorenzo ghiberti sacrifice of isaac lorenzo ghiberti gates of paradise east doors of the florence baptistery filippo brunelleschi old sacristy san lorenzo dome of the cathedral of florence pazzi chapel santo spirito orsanmichele and donatello s saint mark florence nanni di banco four crowned saints donatello st.

The eight lower panels show the four evangelists and the church fathers saint ambrose saint jerome saint gregory and saint augustine. Scala art resource new york the work on the doors lasted until 1424 but ghiberti did not devote himself to this alone. Steven zucker and dr. Lorenzo ghiberti gates of paradise east doors of the florence baptistery bronze 1425 52.

The baptistery in florence east door. The 10 relief panels contained in the doors are among the greatest works of early renaissance sculpture. Steven zucker and dr. Lorenzo ghiberti produced with the aid of some of his most highly skilled assistants these twin bronze doors that were to be eventually placed on the north side of the florence baptistery.

The panels offer viewers a coherent vision of ghiberti s artistic genius and his innovative use of perspective. Once ghiberti completed the north door he was given unusually with no competition the task of also creating the east gate which turned out to be the most beautiful. In a continuation of his first commission ghiberti executed a second pair of doors between 1425 and 1452.