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Stories of Moses

For the last door of the Baptistery, commissioned from him in 1425 but completed only in 1452, Ghiberti abandoned the 14th-century scheme of twenty-eight panels in quatrefoil frames for just ten large rectangular panels in which he set Biblical stories (chosen on the advice of Leonardo Bruni), enclosed by a linear frame with statuettes of prophets and small decorative heads.

How to cite

Bruno Balestrini (photograph), “Stories of Moses”, work by Ghiberti Lorenzo, Gothic Sculpture, Florence, Baptistery. Bruno Balestrini Photographic Archive, https://brunobalestrini.org/cita/sch00672/. Accessed [date accessed].

This English text was translated with the help of artificial intelligence (Claude) from the Italian original, except where an English version already existed in the original archive. Read the Italian version.