Then there is the fascinating ‘Joshua’ panel, which remains in Florence. To portray the crumbling of Jericho’s walls before Joshua’s army, Ghiberti incised deep cracks in the fortifications. Cracks!

Michelangelo said that the doors might “fittingly stand at the gates of Paradise.” All Florentines of the 1450s agreed that their Baptistery’s portal sculpted by Lorenzo Ghiberti, was worthy of ...

Daphne Zuniga is getting witchy. The actress-director stars in Lifetime's upcoming summer film, Gates of Paradise, based on the V.C. Andrews novel from the Heaven Casteel series, and only ET has the ...

They're called the "Gates of Paradise," and after more than 25 years of painstaking restoration, Lorenzo Ghiberti's gilded-bronze masterpieces might just be fit for heaven. The sculptor's original ...

Issued in connection with an exhibition held Apr. 28-July 15, 2007 at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Art Institute of Chicago, July 28-Oct. 13, 2007; and the Metropolitan Museum, New York, Oct.