Lorenzo Ghiberti is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Lorenzo Ghiberti as Italian sculptor and architect (1378–1455).
Lorenzo Ghiberti was born at Florence in 1378. His recorded nationality is Republic of Florence.
Workshops rather than individuals produced most work in this period, and attribution is often a modern reconstruction.
He worked as sculptor, architect and painter.
His recorded movement is early renaissance.
Among his best-known works are Gates of Paradise, Reliefs after Ghiberti from Castel of Sangro and The Gates of Paradise (original). A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Republic of Florence shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Lorenzo Ghiberti died in 1455, aged 77. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Gates of Paradise
- Notable work: Reliefs after Ghiberti from Castel of Sangro
- Notable work: The Gates of Paradise (original)
- Movement: Early Renaissance
