Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise August 12, 2007

Sculptor, painter, draftsman, architectural consultant, stained glass designer, entrepreneur, author of a treatise on the arts, and the first artist to write an autobiography, Ghiberti could honestly declare in his commentaries that "few things of importance were made in our city that were not designed or devised by my hand." The seven works in this exhibition, while only representing a small portion of his creative outlet, confirm that Ghiberti had good reason to boast.