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April 8, 2008
Anne Leader "The Gates of Paradise. Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece: A Symposium." Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. November 16, 2007 College Art Association, 2008
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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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Two weeks after opening its Gates of Paradise exhibition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art held a symposium to explore various issues surrounding the creation, reception, and conservation of Ghiberti’s masterpiece. An international panel of art historians, curators, and conservators offered a range of general and specialist talks to accompany the remarkable loan of three narrative reliefs and four framing elements from the final set of bronze doors created for the Florentine Baptistery. Ian Wardropper, Iris...