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Lorenzo Ghiberti

1378 - 1455

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Lorenzo Ghiberti (UK: , US: , Italian: [loˈrɛntso ɡiˈbɛrti]; 1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, a key figure in the Early Renaissance, best known as the creator of two sets of bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, the later one called by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise. Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, he established an important workshop for sculpture in metal. His book of Commentarii contains important writing on art, as well as what may be the earliest surviving autobiography by any artist. Ghiberti's career was dominated by his two successive commissions for pairs of bronze doors to the Florence Baptistery (Battistero di San Giovanni). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lorenzo Ghiberti is the 7th most popular sculptor (up from 8th in 2019), the 382nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 320th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Sculptor.

Lorenzo Ghiberti is most famous for his bronze doors on the Baptistery of Florence.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Lorenzo Ghiberti ranks 7 out of 258. Before him are Auguste Rodin, Phidias, Praxiteles, Camille Claudel, Benvenuto Cellini, and Polykleitos. After him are Antonio Canova, Lysippos, Alberto Giacometti, Constantin Brâncuși, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and Louise Bourgeois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1378, Lorenzo Ghiberti ranks 1. After him are Hongxi Emperor, Vittorino da Feltre, Ostoja of Bosnia, Louis III, Elector Palatine, Catherine of Burgundy, and David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay. Among people deceased in 1455, Lorenzo Ghiberti ranks 3. Before him are Pope Nicholas V, and Fra Angelico. After him are Pisanello, Isabel of Coimbra, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, Zbigniew Oleśnicki, and Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Lorenzo Ghiberti ranks 382 out of 5,161. Before him are Primo Levi (1919), Atia (-85), Pope Clement III (1130), Pope Marinus I (830), Sofonisba Anguissola (1535), and Pope Pelagius I (505). After him are Charles Borromeo (1538), Pope Benedict II (635), Philip Neri (1515), Catiline (-109), Maxentius (278), and Sallust (-86).

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Among SCULPTORS In Italy

Among sculptors born in Italy, Lorenzo Ghiberti ranks 2. Before him are Benvenuto Cellini (1500). After him are Antonio Canova (1757), Jacopo Sansovino (1486), Nicola Pisano (1225), Luca della Robbia (1399), Andrea Pisano (1290), Alessandro Algardi (1595), Giovanni Pisano (1248), Jacopo della Quercia (1374), Andrea della Robbia (1435), and Bonanno Pisano (1150).

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