The exhibition opened Feb. 20 and goes through October. After that, the Gates will be moved to the atrium of the BYU Museum ...

BYU Museum of Art's "Gilded Paradise" exhibition opened Friday, Feb. 20 and will be on display until October 2026. The exhibit features a restored plaster replica of Lorenzo Ghiberti's famous Gates of ...

The BYU Museum of Art (MOA) recently unveiled restored gypsum cast panels of Italian sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti’s famous ...

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.

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 ...

A gold recast of Italian Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti’s etchings debuted at the BYU Museum of Art Feb. 19. The 18-foot-tall work depicts 10 stories from the Old Testament.

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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 ...

An eight-ton gilded bronze door so splendid Michelangelo dubbed it the "Door of Paradise" will be unveiled to the public again after 27 years of restoration work. But Lorenzo Ghiberti's 15th-century ...

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 ...

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 ...