The Gates of Paradise

The Gates of Paradise

Among the many treasures of Grace Cathedral, the most visible to visitors of the great doors of the East, a copy of the famous doors of paradise, their shimmering gold surface attracts pilgrims to see a large staircase in awe at the complex sculptural and about three-dimensional groups. The original doors, master and master sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, stood at the eastern entrance to the ancient baptistry of the Duomo (Cathedral) in Florence, Italy. Their popular name-gates of Heaven, based on traditions that the young Michelangelo, impressed by the door, described them as deserving to ...