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Italian Early Renaissance artist ()

Lorenzo Ghiberti (, ,^[1][2][3]Italian:[loˈrɛntsoɡiˈbɛrti]; – 1 December ), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, a key figure in the Early Renaissance, best known as the creator of two sets of bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, the later one called by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise.

Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, he established an important workshop for sculpture in metal.

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Ghiberti doors

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His book of Commentarii contains important writing on art, as well as what may be the earliest surviving autobiography by any artist.

Ghiberti's career was dominated by his two successive commissions for pairs of bronze doors to the Florence Baptistery (Battistero di San Giovanni).

They are recognized as a major masterpiece of the Early Renaissance, and were famous and influential from their unveiling.

Early life

Ghiberti was born in in Pelago, a comune