Ghiberti

American  

[gee-ber-tee] / giˈbɛr ti /

noun

1. Lorenzo 1378–1455, Florentine sculptor, goldsmith, and painter.

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Ghiberti British  

/ ɡiˈbɛrti /

noun

1. Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso). 1378–1455, Italian sculptor, painter, and goldsmith of the quattrocento: noted esp for the bronze doors of the baptistry of Florence Cathedral

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Example Sentences

Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Masaccio and Leon Battista Alberti were establishing the rules of perspective.

From Washington Post • May 12, 2022

In 1436, when Luca was in his mid-30s, Leon Battista Alberti ranked him one of the five most inventive Florentines, along with Brunelleschi, Donatello, Lorenzo Ghiberti and Masaccio.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2016

Nothing by Ghiberti is here, but the show opens with the influence that his brilliant reliefs for the Baptistry doors had on sweeping aside the remnants of Medieval Gothic style in Renaissance Italy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2015

Ife sculptures are equal to the works of Ghiberti or Donatello.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2014

Lorenzo Ghiberti preserves the same type, even in his finest work.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John