Florence - Museum of the Works of the Duomo - the east Door of the Baptistry (one of the two "Doors Of Paradise" by Lorenzo Ghiberti (1425 - 1452)
These were executed by Ghiberti between 1425-1452, after he had previously spent another quarter century working on the North Door. They are now displayed in the Museum, with a copy outside on the Baptistry itself. As I recall, several panels on one or the other of these doors were dislodged during the 1967 Arno flood, and might have been lost had not the surrounding fence kept them from being washed away.
Florence - Museum of the Works of the Duomo - the east Door of the Baptistry (one of the two "Doors Of Paradise" by Lorenzo Ghiberti (1425 - 1452)
These were executed by Ghiberti between 1425-1452, after he had previously spent another quarter century working on the North Door. They are now displayed in the Museum, with a copy outside on the Baptistry itself. As I recall, several panels on one or the other of these doors were dislodged during the 1967 Arno flood, and might have been lost had not the surrounding fence kept them from being washed away.