99028 – Gates of Paradise – Panel 6
INTRODUCTION
After more than 25 years, the conservation of Lorenzo Ghiberti?s Gates of Paradise is nearing completion. The exhibition The “Gates of Paradise”: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece provides an unprecedented opportunity to see three of the bronze doors? famous narrative reliefs of Old Testament subjects, as well as four additional sections from the doorframes, before they are permanently installed in the Museo dell?Opera del Duomo, Florence. It also reveals important new findings made during their restoration, including insights into the fabrication process and the evolution of Ghiberti?s imagery and techniques