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 ...

"I strove to imitate nature as clearly as I could, and with all the perspective I could produce," wrote sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti of the gilded bronze doors he created for Florence's Baptistery.

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 ...

Nearly 600 years after their creation and far from home, three priceless 15th-century gilded bronze reliefs by Renaissance master Lorenzo Ghiberti are on view in Seattle. They are from a set of 10 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 1419 the Florentine bankers’ guild commissioned Lorenzo Ghiberti to create a statue of St. Matthew, its patron saint, as something of an advertisement. The resulting bronze ...

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We tend to think of artistic influence in terms of forebears: artists from one era drawing inspiration from those of earlier ones. Yet contemporaries’ influence on each other can be just as important, ...

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 ...