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

Donatello was born in 1386, the son of a craftsman, and was apprenticed to the goldsmith and sculptor Ghiberti, also becoming a close friend of the architect and sculptor Brunelleschi.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2022

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

In this panel, according to the description of Lorenzo di Bartolo Ghiberti, there was a Coronation of Our Lady, wrought, as it were, in the Greek manner, but blended considerably with the modern.

From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi by De Vere, Gaston du C.