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April 8, 2008
Gary M. Radke, ed. The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece Exh. cat. Atlanta and New Haven: High Museum of Art Atlanta in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 184 pp.; 269 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300126150)

Exhibition schedule: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, April 28–July 15, 2007; Art Institute of Chicago, July 28–October 13, 2007; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 30, 2007–January 13, 2008; Seattle Art Museum, January 26–April 6, 2008

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.33

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Lorenzo Ghiberti. Adam and Eve relief, Gates of Paradise (1425–52). Gilt bronze, 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches. Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence. Image courtesy Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore. Photograph by Antonio Quattrone, Florence.

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