Ghiberti

[gee-ber-tee]

noun

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

Ghiberti

/ 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

Example Sentences

Masterpieces like Lorenzo Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise,” his doors for Florence’s Baptistery, are inconceivable without them.

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Lorenzo Ghiberti won a contest in Renaissance Florence to create a set of bronze doors for the Baptistery of St John in 1401.

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The doors — adorned with bronze scenes from the life of Christ that were created in 1900 and inspired by Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance bronze doors for the Baptistery of Florence — were cleaned and conserved.

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

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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.

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