Michelangelo, a famous Renaissance painter and sculptor, called the gates "The Gates of Paradise", a golden door leading to the Heavens. The name stuck, but mostly because of the significance of the location of the doors of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence, Italy, where during the Middle Ages converts went each year to the parade dedicated to St. John the Baptist, to be anointed. and gain heaven; hence the “paradise” in The Gates of Paradise (“Baptistery of San Giovanni”). Before giving a name to the work of art, however, it had to have been built. Commissioned from the goldsmith Lorenzo Ghiberti in 1425 by the Arte di Calimala, a guild of Florence wool merchants, the gilded bronze doors took twenty-seven years to build and were finally installed in the Baptistery in 1452. As seen in Figure 1, The doors contain ten square panels depicting the following scenes from the Old Testament: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah's drunkenness, Abraham and Isaac, Esau and Jacob, Joseph sold into slavery, Moses and the ten commandments, The fall of Jericho, David and Goliath, and Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (“Baptistery of St. John”). Additionally, a frieze composed of flowers and small statues of prophets, sibyls (seers), and busts surrounds the ten panels as further decoration. Built during a period of flourishing art and culture known as the Renaissance, this early Renaissance piece displays various characteristics of the artistic style of the period in terms of subject, appearance, representation, and also other artistic aspects. However, before further describing the Renaissance and its characteristics, it is worth noting that Italy was at the center of the new Renaissance movement and that, later, the victory of the Florentines against... the middle of paper..... .example of Renaissance art.The strong demonstration of classical antiquity, humanism and realism, in The Gates of Paradise, often through the use of detail, design and composition, further reinforces the ideality of the gates as a Renaissance work of art. However, it was Lorenzo Ghiberti, the artist and creator of The Gates of Paradise, who gave the doors those characteristics and therefore their meaning. In this sense it can be said that an artist defines his work of art and for this reason the work of art contains a piece of the artist. Later, as future generations analyze and look at that work of art, the artist's name is thus preserved for decades and even centuries: the artist's name transcends time. With this in mind, isn't it possible that humanity could achieve immortality through art? After all, art can last for centuries while the body cannot.