Episode 39 - Lorenzo Ghiberti and the Gates of Paradise

The Sculptor's Funeral - A podcast by Jason Arkles

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"They are so beautiful that they would do well for the gates of Paradise." That's a pretty high compliment, just for a set of decorative bronze doors - but when we find that the doors took 27 years to make, and the compliment is from the mouth of Michelangelo, perhaps there's something to it...