The three massive sets of doors from the Florence Baptistry, which had been separated for nearly 30 years for restoration work, are now back together at the Museo dell'Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, the vestry in which the Duomo, the Cupola del Brunelleschi, the Campanile di Giotto, and the Baptistry take part.
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Visitors can now admire the doors next to each other in the museum's Sala del Paradiso, the same place that already held the two sets of doors made by Lorenzo Ghiberti, the north and east doors.
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Now the south doors, the oldest of the three, have also arrived. Those doors were made by Andrea Pisano, a student and collaborator of Giotto.
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The return of the south doors marks the completion of a restoration project that began in 1978, when the first work started on the Gates of Paradise - finished only in 2012, due to its complexity - the first to be removed from its original location in 1990.
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In the lower section, for example, some areas of gilding had been worn down by contact with hands over time.
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The recently restored set of doors was created by Pisano between 1330 and 1336. They are made up of 28 panels, 20 of which depict scenes from the life of St. John the Baptist and eight with emblematic figures, interspersed with 74 friezes.
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After Pisano completed the south set of doors, he was entrusted with the most important Florentine sculptures of the century.
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The originals of those are also on display at the Museo dell'Opera.
Source: ANSA [December 10, 2019]
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