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The Florence Baptistery, also known as the Baptistery of Saint John (Italian: Battistero di San Giovanni), is a religious building in Florence, Italy. Dedicated to the patron saint of the city, John the Baptist , it has been a focus of religious, civic, and artistic life since its completion.
Overview. The Mosaic ceiling of the Florence Baptistery is a set of mosaics covering the internal dome and apses of the Baptistery of Florence.It is one of the most important cycles of medieval Italian mosaics, created between 1225 and around 1330 using designs by major Florentine painters such as Cimabue, Coppo di Marcovaldo, Meliore and the Master of the Magdalen, probably by mosaicists from ...
San Barnaba; San Carlo dei Lombardi; Santa Croce, Florence (Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze) Sant'Egidio; San Filippo Neri; San Gaetano; San Giovanni di Dio; San Giovannino dei Cavalieri; San Giovannino degli Scolopi; San Giuseppe; San Jacopo tra Fossi (Evangelical Methodist Church of Florence) [1] San Lorenzo; Santa Lucia; San Marco; Santa ...
Ospedale di San Giovanni di Dio: 1702–1735: Carlo Marcellini: Church of San Giorgio alla Costa: 1705: Giovan Battista Foggini: Interior of Santa Felicita: 1736–1739: Ferdinando Ruggieri: Triumphal arch: 1738–1740: Jean Nicholas Jadot: Biblioteca Marucelliana: 1748–1752: Alessandro Dori: Rondò of Palazzo Pitti: 1765 and 1783-99
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The North Doors of the Florence Baptistery were made by Lorenzo Ghiberti between 1403 and 1424 and represent his first masterpiece, before the celebrated Gates of Paradise. The work is signed in the center, above the panels of the Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi: “ OPVS LAUREN/TII•FLOREN/TINI .”
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Lorenzo Ghiberti (UK: / ɡ ɪ ˈ b ɛər t i /, US: / ɡ iː ˈ-/, [1] [2] [3] 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.