We just learned about the famous sculpture Judith and Holofernes by Donatello.
Another Renaissance art sculpture is the Gates of Paradise by Lorenzo Ghiberti in Florence Italy in 1401 AD.
These doors are at the Florence Baptistry, and have ten different panels, each one of them carved to show a story from the Old Testament in the Bible: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac with Esau and Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
When Michelangelo saw these doors with golden carvings on them, he called them the "Gates of Paradise", and everyone always called the doors by that name.
Ghiberti also made another set of doors for this church that showed scenes from the New Testament.
(from: wikipedia - florence baptistery)
(from: wikipedia - lorenzo Ghiberti)
(from: wikipedia - florence baptistery)
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