Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume II: The Western Perspective, Volume II (with CourseMate Printed Access Card)

by Fred S. Kleiner

Ghiberti’s patrons moved his first pair of doors to the north entrance to make room for the new ones they commissioned him to make for the prestigious east side. Michelangelo later declared Ghiberti’s second doors as “so beautiful that they would do well for the gates of Paradise.”