The Baptistery. One of the oldest structures in Florence, it features three sets of artistically important bronze doors with relief sculptures. The north and east doors were awarded to 21-year-lold Ghiberti after a competition with many much older, more famous artists. Ghiberti spent the next 48 years of his life completing the job.
The interior walls are clad in dark
green and white marble with inlaid geometrical patterns. The niches are
separated by monolithic columns of Sardinian granite. Not one inch of the Baptistery can claim to
be plain.
Contrasting the interior heavy
marble and granite, a magnificent mosaic ceiling glows.
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