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How his work reflected on the renaissance 

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How his work reflected on the renaissance 

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the gates of paradise called "one greatest masterpieces of Italian art" in the Quattrocento, During the renaissance.  When he made the gates of paradise he was in a competition with two commissions that were   Donatello and Nanni di Banco,. He was also  important leader in the Florentine Renaissance.

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Self-portrait by Lorenzo Ghiberti, detail from Gates of Paradise, 1425–52; on the east side of the Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence.  (Lorenzo Ghiberti.)

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The reasoning behind the gates of paradise 

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The reasoning behind the gates of paradise 

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Each square of the Gates of Paradise has five large rectangular  and a scenes from the Old Testament. The sculptures in the *relfies* are placed in landscapes and it had a lot of depth.
(*reliefs is sculptural method is when sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material)
(Lorenzo Ghiberti.)

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The Last book was theoretical , The commentaries shows  Ghiberti’s confidence and how his position as an important leader in the Florentine Renaissance was like .
(Lorenzo Ghiberti.)

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Ghiberti’s , I Commentarii (completed in 1447),  was on his humanist thoughts . The commentaries are made into three books.  The first, is a history of art in ancient times, is  his belief in the practice and theory it probably explains a lot about the excellence of ancient art. (Lorenzo Ghiberti.)

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The gates of paradise is a  pair of gilded bronze doors (1425–52) designed by the sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti for the north entrance of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in florence  (Lorenzo Ghiberti.)

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The second book is about the art of the immediate past, and Ghiberti favoritism for certain Sienese painters and for late 14th-century painters . (Lorenzo Ghiberti.)

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Ghiberti’s mother  married Cione Ghiberti in 1370, and they lived in Pelago,  she went to Florence and lived there as the common-law wife with a goldsmith named Bartolo di Michele. They were married in 1406  It is not for sure  which man was his father,  But in his  early years, Lorenzo considered  himself Bartolo’s son, and Bartolo trained Ghiberti's as a goldsmith. Ghiberti also had training as a painter; and in the autobiographical he made he said , he left Florence in 1400 with a painter to work in the town of Pesaro for its ruler, Sigismondo Malatesta.
(Lorenzo Ghiberti.)

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Born In 1378,    died In December 1, 1455,

(Lorenzo Ghiberti.)

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Bartolo was taught as a goldsmith he left Florence in 1400 with , Sigismondo Malatesta. He went back  home when he heard there was a competition was being held
to make a pair of bronze doors for the Baptistery of the cathedral of Florence  He and six other artists had to represent the biblical scene of Abraham’s sacrifice Ghiberti’s panels showed "a graceful and lively composition" as well as his mastery goldsmith and art was chosen to make the doors by a large panel of judges; their decision brought immediate and lasting recognition to young artists.
(Lorenzo Ghiberti.)